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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has relaxed the sanctions that can be applied to its members. At a meeting in Paris, the PACE Rules Committee approved the decision not to deprive the delegations of the participating countries of the Assembly of the right to vote in elections of senior officials of the Council. , in particular members of the European Court of Human Rights and the Secretary General of the Council.
Reported by Deutsche Welle.
"This is the first and important step to overcome the crisis" in relations between the Council of Europe and Russia, "an important signal for you to get out of the world. stalemate sanctions, "said a German deputy leftist party, Andrei Hunko.
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According to another member of the committee, the German Social Democrat Franck Schwabe, only a few voted against the change of settlement.
The report recalls that after the annexation In Russian Crimea, in April 2014, the PACE deprived the Russian delegation of the right to vote, as well as the possibility of working in the governing bodies of the Assembly and to participate in election observation. In June 2017, Moscow announced that it would suspend payment of contributions to the Council of Europe budget for the full and unconditional recovery of its delegation's powers to PACE.
At an urgent meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe – the Secretary General of the Council, Turbjørn Jagland, instructed the representatives of the Council of Europe member states. Europe to prepare the budget of the organization for 2019, regardless of the financial contribution of the Russian Federation. Currently, Russia is not present at the PACE, but continues to work on the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.
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