Tolstoy: a Russian delegation leaves PACE, if it is the right infringe

the Russian delegation to the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will leave winter session in the case that its powers will be infringed.

As transfers TASS, the world community was informed by the head of delegation, Vice-speaker of the State Duma Pyotr Tolstoy.

He made such statement after January 27 powers of the Russian Parliament was challenged by delegates from Lithuania and Latvia Zingeris, Emanuelis and Maria Golubeva, after which the relevant question was sent to the monitoring Committee.

Colon said that the opponents of Russia serves in particular to judge her for the amendments to the Constitution, which has not even submitted, but only discussed by the public. Another claim by the Russians, he called the presence in the delegation of deputies from the Crimea, rejected the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe.

27 Jan starts in Strasbourg winter session of PACE. The Russian delegation intends to raise the issue of the tripartite mechanism for overcoming crisis situations, which includes measures against countries in violation of the basic principles of the Council of Europe, but at the initiative of either the PACE or the Committee of Ministers or of the Secretary-General.