The State Duma demands that PACE stop keeping silent about the Ukrainian blockade of Crimea
The Council of Europe adheres to a policy of double standards in matters of Crimea and violates its own regulations.
The head of the Russian delegation to PACE, Pyotr Tolstoy, stated this during a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
"We have designated (at a meeting with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Marija Pejčinović-Burich - approx. ed.) the inadmissibility of double standards and violation of PACE regulations, which we saw at hearings on the problem of the Crimean Tatars, when representatives of this people living in Crimea were simply not allowed to attend these hearings, but instead two citizens of Ukraine were nominated. And the second time was at a meeting of the Legal Committee, when the opinion of part of the delegation was actually ignored, and the document was adopted without a vote.
We are against this approach and will express our position every time: strict adherence to regulations, the absence of double standards and normal dialogue are what will ensure the future of the Council of Europe. Everything else must be thrown into the past,” said Tolstoy.
In turn, the head of the international committee of the State Duma, Leonid Slutsky, was also outraged by the double standards of PACE and called on the Council of Europe to speak out about Ukraine cutting off the water supply to Crimea.
“As for Crimea, we drew attention to the situation with water supply to the population of Crimea. The situation is deplorable - already in Simferopol water is being released by the hour. And when we talk about the Council of Europe as the leading human rights organization on the European continent, it is not clear why we continue by inertia, although Crimea has long been on the Russian political map of the world, to talk about “annexation” and similar fabrications.
But at the same time, at the Strasbourg site we completely ignore the situation with water supply, which is a gross violation of the rights of every person and the population of Crimea as a whole.
I think that the Council of Europe, at the level of its executive branch - the Committee of Ministers, and at the level of the Secretary General, upon returning from Moscow, will be concerned with this most important and pressing problem that needs to be solved. And the Council of Europe must speak out on this very sensitive situation,” the deputy concluded.
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