Anti-Russian decisions by PACE make Russia think about working format in PACE - Slutsky
STRASBOURG. April 10 (Interfax) - Leonid Slutsky, deputy head of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), said the decision made by PACE in regards to Russia are more like decisions that could be made by the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
"We see it in two reports: in yesterday's report on Ukraine and in today's report on the powers of the delegation. It's a horrible triumph of double standards, without any exaggeration," Slutsky told a press conference on Thursday after the Russian delegation left the PACE session to protest the tough resolution on Russia.
Slutsky said he had the impression that the session did not actually address Ukraine, but some virtual country, "in which ultra-right radicals didn't seize power, which has no problems with the Russian language, and which has no mass human rights violation or fascist parties such as Freedom and Right Sector."
Slutsky said PACE crossed the "red line" when it voted to strip the Russian delegation of its right to take part in PACE observer missions and the work of its administrative bodies.
"All these things make us seriously think about the format of cooperation or non-cooperation with PACE in the nearest future," he said.
