STRASBOURG, January 30 – RIA Novosti, Kristina Rodriguez Luna. The deprivation of Russian delegation to PACE was the central theme of the closing on Friday in Strasbourg, the winter session of the Assembly. PACE surprised by the decision of the Russian Federation to leave Strasbourg, some parliamentarians until the end and did not understand why the delegation left.
On Wednesday, PACE called on Russia to withdraw “its troops” from Ukraine and “refrain from supplying weapons to the militia,” ” immediately take robust action against the influx of Russian volunteers to take part in the conflict in the east of Ukraine “and demanded Russia to release detained in the Russian Ukrainian pilots Hope Savchenko within 24 hours, or transfer it to a third party.
Kiev authorities, as well as the US and the EU have repeatedly accused Moscow of interfering in the affairs of Ukraine. Russia denies the allegations and calls unacceptable. Moscow has repeatedly stated that it is not a party to the conflict and internal Ukrainian involvement in the events in the southeast, is interested in the fact that Ukraine has overcome the political and economic crisis.
It would seem so, but there is no
On the first day of the PACE session, a group of MPs, led by Briton Robert Walter, challenged the authority of the Russian delegation to PACE to this session. On the sidelines of the Assembly, there was talk that the British member of parliament for a long time preparing this action, since at the time the Russian delegation did not support his candidacy for the post of the PACE.
After the protest office, the Assembly requested the profile of the Monitoring Committee to prepare a draft report and resolution. The Russian delegation welcomed the project, worked with parliamentarians, clarified its position.
Before the first half of January 28 – the day of voting – all went well. However, after a meeting of the relevant committee and vote on the draft resolution, it was reported that a margin of one vote, passed a radical amendment to the document. It proposed to deprive the Russian delegation of voting rights at the meeting. After approval by the Commission Amendment head of the Russian delegation to PACE, Alexei Pushkov told RIA Novosti that in the case of deprivation of voting rights, it leaves Strasbourg.
During the discussion, the report’s author Stephen Shennah called on parliamentarians to engage in dialogue. He supported the proposal to return to the theme of authority is not in June, and in April. However, speaking to limit participation in the statutory bodies, he called for the preservation of the delegation to vote. However, despite the opinion of the reporter, PACE supported by a majority vote a radical amendment that stripped voting rights, the right to participate in the statutory bodies, to participate in the monitoring activities of the Assembly, appoint rapporteurs.
The Russian delegation on the same day left Assembly
Why did you leave?
PACE delegation decision to leave Strasbourg surprised. Thus, the head of the Assembly Anne Brasseur said that no one fully repealed the authority of Russia. To return to the delegation of powers, in her opinion, it is necessary to perform the paragraphs of the resolution (“the withdrawal of troops from Transnistria, the return of the Crimea, the progress in resolving the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, the release Savchenko in 24 hours”, etc.). In April PACE check the “execution” requirements and decide what to do next, and in June will decide not to withdraw the delegation of powers completely.
The Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland, the Council of Europe Assembly endorsed the decision of the independent, but noted that the Russian Federation to now a full member of the Council of Europe, it participates in all activities, the Committee of Ministers.
Part of radical MPs (Ukrainian and the British delegation) adopted a resolution on the “cheers” and continued to discuss the situation, even when The Russian delegation has left.
Another part admitted that in general do not fully understand why she is Russian.
So, one of the MPs admitted that “esteemed resolution and realized that the Russian delegation was deprived of the right to vote at the meeting for two days in April, you can all over again, again to discuss “.
” The resolution is so much demand, incredibly, wanted to discuss with the delegation, and she had already left, “- said another MP.
There were PACE and those who said the next day that the incident – “sheer stupidity”. So, one of the members of parliament told RIA Novosti that “the very next day after the vote, we are faced with the consequences of” brilliant “solutions”.
“We have in the morning was the Monitoring Committee, on it some parliamentarians asked how to visit Russia in connection with the activities of the commission. That, by the Ukrainian parliament had requests to visit his colleague, who is accused of murder in Russia, but on the contrary – no, no one could answer these questions – silence ” – he said.
How soured relations between Moscow and the PACE
The relations between Russia and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe cooled off in April 2014 after the adoption of the PACE decision to deprive the Russian delegation the right to vote, the right to participate in the meeting of statutory bodies and to participate in monitoring activities of the Assembly of Moscow’s position on the Crimea. The Russian delegation left the room before the restoration of power. More about depriving Russia of voting rights in PACE – in the plot RIA Novosti & gt; & gt;
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