The Minister for foreign Affairs of Belgium, head of Ministers of the Council of Europe Didier Reynders distanced themselves from the decisions of PACE to deprive the Russian delegation of powers, noting that the Council and PACE, " play different roles ".

early in the year, the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has deprived the Russian delegation's voting rights because of the situation in Ukraine until April, thereby extending introduced before the punishment, because of the situation in Ukraine. Head of the state Duma on international Affairs Alexei Pushkov stated before that the Russian Federation leaves the Assembly before the end of 2015

on the question of the impact of the January decision of the Committee on credentials of the Russian delegation for relations with the Council of Europe, the Belgian diplomat said that "

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