Deputies will discuss condemning German annexation of the GDR statement – Interfax

Deputies will discuss condemning German annexation of the GDR statement – Interfax

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Moscow. January 28. INTERFAX.RU – Speaker of the Duma supported the Communist deputies Nikolai Ivanov, who in response to the EU condemnation of Russia for “annexation of the Crimea” offered to instruct the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs to prepare a statement condemning “the annexation of the German Democratic Republic Germany in 1989″.

A member of the Communist Party faction Nikolai Ivanov in the morning session of the State Duma said that “all empathized” Naryshkin, when he at a press conference in Strasbourg, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe “beat off attacks” PACE President Anne Brasseur, accuses Russia of “annexation of the Crimea “.

” I offer as a retaliatory step to instruct the Committee on Foreign Affairs to prepare a statement condemning the annexation of the German Democratic Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany in 1989. Especially since, in contrast to the Crimea, in the GDR national referendum held was not, “- said Ivanov.

Naryshkin Ivanov supported the idea and instructed the Committee on Foreign Affairs to consider the desirability of such a declaration. In turn, the first deputy head of the Duma’s international affairs committee Svetlana Zhurova (“United Russia”) reported that the committee is ready to promptly consider such a question.

Naryshkin headed the Russian delegation participated in the PACE winter session opened in Strasbourg 26 of January. He presented at different venues Russia’s stance on Crimea, and, above all, pay attention to the fact that “the reunification of the Crimea with Russia was carried out based on the result of the democratic procedure – the referendum, when 97% of the population of Crimea clearly in favor of reunification with their homeland” .

At a briefing on Sunday, January 25 after a meeting of the Presidential Committee of the Assembly, the Speaker, in response to accusations of “annexation”, said: “If we follow the logic of those who call this historic event annexation, then with as easily as the authors of this logic we can say that the Federal Republic of Germany annexed eastern Germany or the German Democratic Republic “.

He said that Russia is categorically against this logic – as in the case of the GDR, and in the case in the Crimea.