Sergei Naryshkin told about the split on the “Russian question” in the PACE – Russian newspaper

Sergei Naryshkin told about the split on the "Russian question" in the PACE – Russian newspaper

The Russian delegation arrived yesterday in Strasbourg to participate in the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. In addition, our members were warned that if Russia again left without powers, our country fully suspend the work of the Assembly in 2015. About this informed the MEPs Sergei Naryshkin.

After two missed sessions Russia, as explained by the head of the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs Alexei Pushkov, came to PACE as a full member. Assembly sanctions against our country ended January 1, 2015. Our parliamentarians “automatic” back selected in retaliation for the Crimea right to vote and the right to participate in the governing bodies of the Assembly and observation missions. “We have no reason not to attend the session,” – explained Pushkov fact soon reporters, noting that our deputies were not “put up” with PACE. “With those involved in the campaign to oust Russia from the Council of Europe are not going to tolerate,” – he assured.

This attitude of our delegation due to the fact that the newly acquired powers unfriendly MEPs threaten to take away again. Today, as no doubt Sergei Naryshkin and other members of the delegation, the issue will be raised anti-Russian bloc countries. K of “Russophobia” include Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Hungary, Romania, Poland, the Baltic states, Georgia and, of course, Ukraine.

After closing the press talks with the Presidential Committee PACE Pushkov said that in the assembly was a real split in regard to Russia. On the restoration of the powers of our delegation shlestnutsya two positions, and the spread between them is expected to be only a couple of dozen votes. Friendly minded parliamentarians to us, he said, understand that without Russia PACE will lose some of its influence. The Delegation of the Russian Federation will not be able to vote on this issue.

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Some optimism Speaker of the State Duma, by his own admission inspires’ work on the draft report on the inadmissibility of sanctions against parliamentarians “, which is prepared on the initiative of Alexei Pushkov. This document is intended to convince the members of the Assembly that the decision on deprivation of voting rights of Russians incompetent because they do not correspond to the European Convention on Human Rights. True, there is not going smoothly. Report on the illegality of sanctions has a chance to be unfinished, acknowledged Cannon: “anti-Russian forces can make the effort to report was not available or did not pass the PACE Committee”.

PACE President Anne Brasseur, released to reporters with Naryshkin, brushed off allegations of violation of the Convention. A common language on this topic interlocutors have not found.

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