Russia’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will not put up with the slightest restrictions and will quit the session in case of any, chairman of the Russian State Duma's International Affairs Committee Leonid Slutsky said on Thursday, APA reports citing TASS.
Slutsky said that the Russian delegation is ready to be back at PACE if the latter "passes a resolution supplementing the rules of procedure with a ban on stripping national delegations of the right to vote, speech and participation in the assembly’s key structures."
"As soon as its draft with all the corresponding amendments is voted on, Russia is 99.99% sure to apply for reinstatement with PACE from June 25," he stressed.
"But if our rights are once again revised, once PACE panders to the Russophobic minority again and decides to continue its sanction games, we will quit the session and leave Strasbourg," he said. "The Russian delegation will not stay at the Assembly if a report on our rights has the slightest hint at restrictions, whatever they might be," he concluded.
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