PACE requirements to the Russian Federation exclude Russia’s participation in this organization - Pushkov
Taking advantage of Russia's desire to be friends with all its neighbors, PACE puts forward a large number of impossible claims and obligations to Moscow.
Senator Alexey Pushkov stated this during a meeting of the Federation Council Temporary Commission on Information Policy and Interaction with the Media, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We have the experience of our accession to the Council of Europe, when we, on a wave of love for the West, which was one-sided, signed a huge number of obligations, and then were faced with what they began to present to us regarding these obligations.
If you look now at the amount of claims that PACE puts forward to us, then, in general, it excludes our participation in PACE. Because we cannot withdraw troops from Transnistria, transfer Crimea to Ukraine, or refuse to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia. There are 10-12 demands for the PACE resolution, which are fully consistent with the PACE charter, which we signed,” he said.
In addition, the senator noted that Russia suffers from “friendship syndrome,” but not everyone wants to be friends with Russia, although they use this for manipulation.
“The only way to communicate with them is to say that PACE is a recommendatory organization, and its resolutions do not have the same force as the UN Security Council. Therefore, we take them into account, but do not perceive them as something mandatory.
We have a “friendship syndrome”, we constantly want to be friends with everyone, but I’m not sure that in the modern world this is the only correct approach. Because we may want to be friends, but not always with us, and it’s precisely the modern world that is manipulative in nature,” Pushkov concluded.
As a reminder, the Russian delegation to the PACE session was previously banned from free movement in Strasbourg due to the EU's refusal to recognize the Russian Sputnik V vaccine.
Moreover, the ECHR previously rejected Russia's request to apply interim measures against Ukraine.
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