Great Britain refused the visas of the Russian delegation in the OSCE PA

The British government refused the Russian delegation to issue a visa for a trip to the annual session of the OSCE parliamentary Assembly, which will be held on July 2-6 in Birmingham, said Vladimir Dzhabarov, deputy chairman of the Committee of the Federation Council for International Affairs.

As Dzhabarov explained, since all members of the Federal Assembly are in the British sanctions lists, participants in the parliamentary delegation asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and leadership of the OSCE PA to “work out and resolve the issue” about the provision of British guarantees for their visas. ”However, according to Giabarov, the parliamentarians received a“ outrageous answer that the British government could not issue the members of the Russian delegation in PA in PA. OSCE, for no matter what purpose they visit the country. "

Dzhabarov accused London of a gross violation of the 2016 OSSE declaration, which obliges to provide all members of the Assembly with unhindered access to any official events "by issuing visas or permits necessary for entry into the territory of their countries, at least for the period of events."

Previously, Dzhabarov said that at the OSCE session in Birmingham, the issue of exclusion of Russia from the Assembly may be considered. Dzhabarov noted that although the OSCE procedures, unlike PACE, do not provide for a mechanism for the exclusion of national delegations, "in the context of the prevailing gross violations of regulatory norms, the mood of some opponents of the Russian Federation to deprive the Russian delegation to fully and fully work in the OSCE PA."

The head of the Russian delegation, Pyotr Tolstoy, sent a statement to the leadership and all members of the OSCE, which says that Russians are inadequate to the Assembly session "seriously undermined the authority of both the event itself and the entire organization as a whole," and all the in absence of the session, including the head declaration, will not consider legitimate.

After an open invasion of Ukraine, Russia was deprived of the rights to participate in the authorized bodies of the Council of Europe, and then excluded from the organization . The Russian delegation in PACA was also headed by Tolstoy.