State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin said he was surprised by the fact that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) did not reduce the size of the contributions of the Russian Federation after the deprivation of her right to vote.
«PACE our delegation deprived of authority, but the annual contributions to the Assembly for some reason did not offer to reduce “- Naryshkin said during an international round table on solving the” crisis of confidence in Europe, “RIA” Novosti ».
November 13 Naryshkin after a meeting with the PACE Presidential Committee in the State Duma, said that the leadership of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Russian delegation expressed the desire to return to Russia all the powers in the Assembly.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) regretted the decision to deprive the Russian delegation of the right to vote.
Recall, April 10, the Russian delegation was denied the right to vote in PACE to the end of the year due to the annexation of Crimea. In addition, the Assembly decided to exclude Russia from the governing bodies of the PACE until the end of the year.
According to the chairman of the Duma Committee for International Affairs, the head of the Russian delegation Alexei Pushkov, the Russian delegation will visit the PACE January session, but will continue to operate it in 2015 only after the lifting of sanctions.
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