Ukraine yesterday expressed anger at its Western partners after lawmakers at the Council of Europe agreed to allow Russian representatives back following a five year absence prompted by Moscow’s annexation of Crimea.
Russian delegates had been stripped of their voting rights in the pan-European rights body in 2014 after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine.
Russia’s absence from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) — whose members are MPs drawn from parliaments of Council of Europe member states — had raised questions about its future membership of the rights body.
The decision by lawmakers — taken in a vote in the …read more
Source: Gulf times
