The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe has abstained from addressing the legitimacy of the actions of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and even expressed solidarity with them, said the speaker of the state Duma Sergey Naryshkin at the meeting of the scientific Council on the law-making under the Chairman of the lower house.
He expressed regret over the fact that the coup in Kyiv and carried out by the Ukrainian law enforcers punitive operation until not received proper evaluation from international institutions." and the Venice Commission in the best case, withdrew from the solution of these problems, and in the worst case even expressed solidarity with the Clearly illegal steps of the Ukrainian authorities, " he said, according to ITAR-TASS. Addressing the attendees of the Council, Naryshkin noticed that " the conclusions of experts, lawyers are in great demand parliamentarians - not only in our country but also other countries." First in March, the State Duma asked the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe on the issue of legitimacy of decisions of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine." We went through the legal Committee of the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe that was adopted request to the Venice Commission concerning the legitimacy of decisions (the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine), " Naryshkin said. However, the decision Arkoma to go to the Venice Commission was eventually blocked. The Venice Commission is an Advisory body to the Council of Europe on issues of constitutional law. It includes all 47 countries of the Council of Europe and a further 12 countries - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, USA, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Korea, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Israel. There are still countries - Belarus, Argentina, Canada, Uruguay, Japan, the Vatican is taking part in it as observers or associate members. The Committee gives opinions on requests parliaments, governments and heads of state, Council of Europe and the European Union. The legal position of the Venice Commission are more than 50 decisions of the Strasbourg court.

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