Russia wide membership in the Council of Europe – Moscow 24, 16.03.2022
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Russia has been re-registered as a member of the Council of Europe since March 16. proper requirement distributed press office of the organization.
The decision to expel the Russian Federation from the Council of Europe was made by the Extraordinary Review Committee.
On March 10, the Russian Foreign Ministry published a message that Russia would no longer host in the Council of Europe. The department is interested that this is due to the fact that they relate to and affect the concretization of the organization and aggravate the humanitarian and legal situation in Europe, turning the Council into a platform for narcissism.
On March 14, Russian Senator Anatoly Bashkin announced that Russia had suspended work in PACE. In turn, Senator Vladimir Krugly confirmed that the organization sent its delegation to the Russian Federation.
PACE voted on the call to the Committee of the Council of Europe on emergency situations of Russia from the organization. 216 deputies of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe were in favor of such a decision, and no one was against it. Three others abstained.
According to the speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, there is no point in governing the Council of Europe without Moscow.
The situation in relations between Russia and Western countries worsened after the night of February 24, Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to join the Donbass. At the same time, he stressed that the plans of the powers of the Russian Federation do not include the occupation of the territories of Ukraine. The President of the Russian Federation, the head of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik, demanded assistance in repelling aggression from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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