All members of PACE Presidential Committee to visit Moscow on Sept 6-7
MOSCOW. Aug 31 (Interfax) - The Presidential Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) chaired by PACE President Pedro Agramunt will visit Moscow on September 6-7 and meet with State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin and members of the Russian delegation to the Assembly, deputy head of the Russian delegation to PACE and chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots Leonid Slutsky said.
"Naturally, resolution of the crisis in relations between Moscow and Strasbourg will be on the agenda," Slutsky told reporters on Wednesday.
Agramunt will be accompanied by leaders of all political groups of the Assembly, he said. "We will receive the PACE Presidential Committee, which is a truly landmark event in today's scarce cooperation with PACE," the parliamentarian said.
The stance on resuming cooperation with PACE has not been altered, he said. "The Russian delegation will return to Strasbourg only if the cancellation of discriminative decisions which deprived it of voting rights and major powers in the Assembly is guaranteed," he said.
PACE "may soon arrive at revision of these sanctions," Slutsky said.