Kyiv, April 10 (Navigator, Mikhail Ryabov) – The Russian delegation, in connection with the events around Crimea, was deprived of the right to vote in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe until 2015.
This was announced by a participant in the meeting, Verkhovna Rada deputy Irina Gerashchenko from UDAR.
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“145 PACE members supported depriving the Russian delegation of the right to vote in the Assembly until 2015. Russians are also deprived of the right to take part in observation and monitoring missions, in the elections of the governing bodies of the Assembly and judges, and participation in the working bodies of the Assembly. Several votes were not enough to introduce an amendment to completely deprive State Duma members of their powers.
Our devoted friends were with us - Georgians, Poles, Latvians, Estonians, and others. Unfortunately, there is still a lot of work to be done with the delegations of the Old World (Germany, France, others), who are still defending a mythical dialogue with Putin’s Russia,” Gerashchenko wrote on Facebook.
PACE is the oldest body of inter-parliamentary cooperation in Europe.
Among the important powers of the Assembly are the elections of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe and his deputy, judges of the European Court of Human Rights,