Ostrovka Russia in PACE for the year was "cold shower" for the organization, which will be useful, said Tuesday the speaker of the state Duma Sergey Naryshkin.

Tuesday in the state Duma held a meeting Naryshkin, the speaker of the Grand national Assembly of Turkey Cemil Cicek.

According to Naryshkin, depriving the Russian delegation of voting rights, PACE significantly dropped his own reputation as an open and democratic platform for equal dialogue ".

"in response, we had to stop for a while its work in the parliamentary Assembly for the year, and I hope that this cold shower for the parliamentary Assembly will be useful," he said.

PACE has deprived the Russian delegation's voting rights until April, thereby extending introduced last April of punishment because of the situation in Ukraine. Because of this, the delegation of the Russian Federation said about temporary suspension of work in the organization until the end of 2015.

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