Russia leaves Council of Europe

MOSCOW, 16 March 2022, (TON): The notice of Russia’s withdrawal from the Council of Europe was handed over to the organization’s Secretary General Maria Pejcinovic-Buric.

This is stated in the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

The statement said “the states of NATO and the European Union, abusing their majority in the Council of Europe, are consistently turning this organization into an instrument of anti-Russian policy, refusing an equal dialogue and all the principles on which this pan-European structure was created. On February 25, they made a discriminatory decision to suspend representation Russia in the statutory bodies of the Council of Europe.”

The Foreign Ministry noted “under such conditions, our country will not remain in the Council of Europe. On March 15, Secretary General Maria Pejcinovic-Buric was given a notice of the withdrawal of the Russian Federation from the organization.”

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