15:08 20.11.2017

No grounds to restore Russia's voting rights in PACE - Klympush-Tsintsadze

2 min read
No grounds to restore Russia's voting rights in PACE - Klympush-Tsintsadze

There are currently no grounds to restore the voting rights of the Russian delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), because over the past three years Russia has not demonstrated any progress in the implementation of PACE resolutions on military aggression against Ukraine, Deputy Prime Minister Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze has said.

According to the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers, she stated this as part of a working visit to Paris during meetings with Head of the France-Ukraine Friendship Group of the National Assembly of France Valeria Faure Muntian and Vice Head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the National Assembly of France Mireille Clapot.

The parties discussed the situation in eastern Ukraine. Klympush-Tsintsadze stressed the need to strengthen cooperation as part of the Normandy format and noted that in the near future the most important thing was to make Russia work on a road map and fulfill the Minsk agreements.

She also proposed that the French parliament consider recognizing the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as a crime of the genocide of the Ukrainian people, since this matter of historical memory is very important to Ukraine.

Faure Muntian, as a member of the delegation of the National Assembly of the Organization of Black Sea Economic Cooperation, will stay in Ukraine at the beginning of the next year and plans, along with her colleagues, to visit the east of Ukraine and Odesa region.

AD
AD
AD
AD
AD