Russia decided on Thursday its Boycott of the Council of Europe to continue. Thus, Russia is approaching an exit from the Council of Europe.
Moscow - One of the deputies in Moscow with an overwhelming majority, adopted Resolution, not to send delegates to the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe next Monday. In addition, the contribution to the budget of the Council of Europe should continue to be frozen. In order for an exit of Russia from the Euro is drawing closer at hand. This would mean that Moscow would lose access to the European court of human rights (ECtHR).
Russia lies with the Council of Europe in the dispute, since the Parliamentary Assembly imposed in the spring of 2014 in the Wake of the Ukraine crisis, sanctions against the Russian Parliament Aryans. The 18 Russian parliamentarians of the voting was deprived of the right. They were also excluded from access to certain Posts and missions.
Russia's accession payments to the Council of Europe
in Protest of the Russian deputies to boycott since then, the meetings of the Assembly. In June 2017 Moscow was also his accession of payments to the Council of Europe. This amounted to approximately 33 million Euro in the year - nearly ten percent of the total budget for the Strasbourg-based organization. Your 47 countries from Eastern and Western Europe. Russia had been recorded in 1996 in the Council of Europe.
A working group of the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe had put in last autumn, an easing of sanctions. The Russian government, this does not go far enough, it threatens with a withdrawal from the Council of Europe.
No payments of Russia to the Council of Europe: deadline is the end of June
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, consisting of foreign Ministers of the member States, must be according to Statute, if a country has to pay two years of his member contributions. This period expires at the end of June.
The ECtHR handed down in the past few years, repeated rulings against Moscow and ordered Russia to pay compensation to government opponents, including Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, or to the protest group Pussy Riot. The exit of Russia from the Euro belongs to the Council of Europe to the topics that wants to discuss Federal foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) on Friday in Moscow with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.
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Date Of Update: 18 January 2019, 00:01
