" Someone in Kiev " punitive operations could push the PACE's decision to deprive the Russian delegation of the voting rights, said the head of the state Duma Sergei Naryshkin, speaking at the session of the OSCE PA.
" By the way, I do not exclude, that the extremely irresponsible April the PACE's decision to deprive the Russian delegation of the right words, the right to vote only pushed somebody in Kyiv by the beginning of punitive military operations. Do the members of the PACE that they took on their own shoulders the responsibility for what was then in Eastern Ukraine?" - said the head of the lower house of the Russian Parliament, ITAR-TASS reported. on April 10 the delegation of Russia was stripped of voting rights in PACE until the end of the year in connection with the annexation of Crimea. In addition, the Assembly decided on excluding Russia from the governing bodies of the PACE until the end of the current year. Naryshkin also believes " initially not constructive to throw in the agenda of such responsible session (OSCE PA) solutions, leading to confrontation and in the Assembly, and on the European continent." Trying again and groundless to blame on the Russian Federation all the troubles, can only undermine the peace process in Ukraine, which is just beginning and is very fragile, " he warned. On the first day weekend, despite the opposition of Russia and Azerbaijan, in the agenda of the plenary session of the 23rd session of the OSCE parliamentary Assembly was included issued by the us Senator Benjamin Cardin, a draft decision condemning Russia's actions in Ukraine." Today we all need to be consolidated, to assist the President, Poroshenko and the people of Ukraine to restore peace and order ", - noticed the head of the state Duma." along with this, the situation there is extremely complicated, " he warned. Naryshkin tried to convince members of the Assembly " to evaluate it on the basis of the facts ".

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