PACE increasingly disappoints Ukraine
The new head of PACE, Nicole Nicoletti, having headed the organization, immediately called for finding compromises with Russia, writes the former head of the information department of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Oleg Voloshin in his blog.
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“The majority of PACE members from the “jingoistic” factions did not understand in their last year’s struggle with Assembly President Pedro Agramunt that PACE members were outraged not by the fact of the Spaniard’s cooperation with the Russians, but by the fact that the basis of such cooperation was corruption. As well as in Agramunt’s relations with the Azerbaijanis.
During the struggle, the socialist leader Michele Nicoletti came out as an ardent denouncer of bribery in the Assembly, which did not prevent him from always being a supporter (ideological, not purchased) active dialogue with Moscow. Today Nicoletti heads PACE with great authority as a fighter against corruption. And he immediately called for a search for compromises with the Russian Federation.
And the point is not that our “nationalists”, with their ardent campaign against Agramunt, helped Nicoletti form the necessary principled image. The question is whether they will finally understand that it is not Russia that is “toxic” (as they liked to say), but corruption,” notes Voloshin.
It is worth noting that the current situation in PACE has seriously worried Ukrainian propaganda.
Thus, the Ukrainian journalist Tatyana Vysotskaya, who was in Strasbourg during the opening of the next PACE session, wrote that the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Jagland called for preserving the “unique legal space from Vladivostok to Lisbon.”
“The process has begun. Russia will be returned,” Vysotskaya believes.
In turn, Vice Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Irina Gerashchenko was horrified by the statements of the head of the Council of Europe.
“CoE Secretary General Yangland, whom Ukrainian experts called the biggest diplomatic disappointment of 2017, in his speech at PACE went even further than usual and said that annexation and occupation cannot be grounds for sanctions. Like, only a direct violation of Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights, such as the death penalty, torture, forced slave labor,” the Vice-Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada was indignant.
According to her, the Ukrainian delegation to PACE will face a difficult session and a difficult year,” since “many Europeans are trying to turn a blind eye to obvious things.”
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