Russia will no longer participate in the board of Europe, TASS news the agency quoted the Russian Foreign Ministry as saying on Thusday.
The ministry said in a statement that NATO and the European Union countries undermined Europe body designed to defend human rights, rule of law and democracy.
“Russia will not participate in the transformation by NATO and the EU which obediently follows them of oldest european organization in another platform for incantations about Western superiority and narcissism,” the ministry said, according to Russia. media RIA News outlet. “Let them enjoy communicating with each other without Russia.
hostile states, abusing the majority in the committee of Ministers of the board of Europe, carry on the line of destroy the organization and the whole humanitarian and legal space in this part of the worldaccording to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“The lesson of events becomes irreversible. Russia does not intend to put up with these subversive actions carried out out by the collective West in line with taxation of a “rules-based order” to replace the international law flouted by the United States and its satellites,” the message added.
Russia joined the board of Europe in Winter of 1996, and since then the country has had a moratorium on the death penalty. Two years later, Moscow ratifies the European Convention for the protection of Human Rights and Freedoms (ECHR).
Many times Russia was deprived of the right of vote in the Parliamentary Assembly of the board of Europe, despite the fact that’s all one of the five biggest sponsors of the organization. After the start of the special transaction in Ukraine, the Council of Europe suspended Moscow membership.
Russia membership in the board of Europe, in compliance with the chart of the organization will end at the end of the current financial year.
