It became known, delegation which countries of Europe have supported and did not support the resolution on the invitation of the Russian Federation to the PACE. Recall, that Russia has suspended its participation in both the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, and payments. The amount of annual payments on the part of Russia is in this organization 32 million euros. As it turns out, Without these contributions to the PACE began to appear significant financial problems, but because talking about the need to restore the rights of the Russian delegation. However, at the moment of the restrictions still valid.
How does the list of countries, supported the idea of the return of the Russian delegation?
Unanimously "for": representatives of Andorra, Austria, Azerbaijan, Spain, Ireland, Iceland, Cyprus, Serbia, San-Marino, Turkey, France and Norway.
delegation, who for the return of the Russian Federation did not vote all, but most:
Armenia, Belgium, Moldova, Italy, Slovakia, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Czech Republic, Switzerland and Croatia.
representatives of the Finnish, Slovenian, Romanian delegations, as well as the delegation of the Principality of Liechtenstein has decided to abstain.
list of countries, delegation which at full strength voted "against": Ukraine, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
The delegation of Poland and the United Kingdom, opinion was divided, but the majority of the delegates still voted against the return of Russian deputies in PACE.
In Ukraine, such results of voting called a "betrayal of the interests of Ukraine and Europe".
Today, PACE will vote in the election secretary general of the organization. Ukrainian delegation announced its "freezing relations with PACE". Was withdrawn and the Ukrainian Ambassador to the Council of Europe.
