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The Committee of Ministers decided to exclude Russia from the Council of Europe
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe decided to exclude Russia from the organization. The solution is valid immediately, according to their website.
Earlier, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe recommends excluding Russia to the Committee of Ministers. 216 delegates voted "for", delegates from Poland, Germany and Bulgaria abstained.
Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry issued an application for the suspension of the country's participation in the work of the Council of Europe. The department believes that the EU and NATO states unfriendly to Russia destroy the Council of Europe, abusing their majority.
“The course of events becomes irreversible. Russia does not intend to put up with these subversive actions carried out by the collective West in the line of the“ Procedure based on the Rules ”to replace the trained USA and their satellites of international law. Russia will not participate in the transformation of the EU by the oldest European organization into the next area for spells about Western superiority and self -love. Enjoy communication with each other, without Russia. "
In connection with the withdrawal of CE, Russians will no longer be able to apply for the protection of rights to the European Court of Human Rights . Andrei Klishas, the head of the SFR Constitutional Legislation and State Construction Committee, said that this would not affect citizens, and urged them to act more actively in Russian courts, including the Constitutional Court.
Human rights activist Pavel Chikov at the same time explains that it is not yet about leaving CE.
"The Foreign Ministry and Klishas/Kosachevs disperse the wave. They suspend the opportunity to participate in the meetings of the Committee of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly," he notes in his telegram channel. "The federal law on the denunciation of the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms is needed to leave the Council. A person and the main freedoms and protocols to it "dated March 30, 1998. After the adoption by his State Duma, approval by the Council of the Federation and the signing by the President, denunciation enters into force. According to the Charter of the Council of Europe in this case, the state ceases to be its member from January 1 of the next year. Such a procedure may be discussed on the sidelines, but not launched."
On February 24, the Russian army entered the territory of Ukraine. This happened immediately after Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to start conducting a "special operation" in the Donbass after the request of the so -called "DPR" and "LPR".
The Council of Europe perceived the actions of Russia as a violation of international law and sharply condemned the so -called "special operation" of Putin. The Committee of Ministers of the Council suspended the right of representation in it of the Russian Federation, calling what was happening "an armed attack on Ukraine." The committee made this decision for the first time in the history of the organization.
Russia has been taking part in the work of the Council of Europe since 1996, due to the entry into which, among other things, in the country they introduced a moratorium on the death penalty. After the decision of the Committee of the Enterprise of the CE on the suspension of the right of representation of the Russian Federation in the organization, the head of the Constitutional Court Valery Zorkin said that the moratorium was originally "a concession to values" unusual Russia, and now the country has the opportunity to get rid of it.