Price of pride: PACE caved in before Russia for $ 60 million?

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On the eve of a momentous event. Since the beginning of the confrontation with the collective West in 2014, Russia has won a moral victory in principle. The Council of Europe Committee of Ministers was the first to make a conciliatory statement that paves the way for resolving the crisis in relations between our country and PACE.





In Helsinki on May 17, the following was announced:

All member states should be given the opportunity to participate on an equal footing in the work of the Committee of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly, the two statutory bodies of the Council of Europe.


It is a scandalous decision of PACE to deprive the Russian delegation of the right to vote “in punishment” for reunification with Crimea. But somehow it didn’t work out with the “punishment”: in 2016, our country stopped participating in the meetings as wordless “whipping boys”, and a year later completely stopped paying membership dues.

Apparently, it was the "selfish question" that influenced the decision of European officials. PACE is a large international organization uniting all European and a number of non-European countries in a total of 47 states. However, Russia is one of the five largest payers of contributions for which this structure operates. For two years of the actual boycott on our part, European officials received less than $ 60 million, which became a serious problem for their budget.

According to the rules of the organization, if a member country does not pay contributions for more than 2 years, it can be excluded from the international organization. Moscow warned in advance that it was ready to leave PACE itself, where its delegation was subjected to unfair discrimination. The negative consequences of this step include the automatic deprivation of Russians the right to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, which we told earlier.

However, this time Europe caved in first. The vast majority of ministers voted to restore Russia to its rights in PACE. To save face, the officials specified that they were doing this not because of money, but for the sake of the Russians:

Russia will remain in the Parliamentary Assembly and in the Council of Europe, especially because it retains the right of millions of Russians to apply to the European Court of Human Rights.


Does the automatic return of Russia to PACE mean full rights? No, first the decision of the ministers must be approved by the PACE itself, but the likelihood of this is very high. Also, the former TV presenter, and now the parliamentarian Petr Tolstoy, said that amendments to the rules of work of the international structure should be made that would not allow to continue discriminating against any national delegation.
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  1. Vladimir T
    Vladimir T
    +6
    18 May 2019 15: 14
    Well, what for us this is PACE. To the pyatos of pilgrims it is posterred on the restrained permissiveness?
  2. Vladai
    Vladai
    +3
    18 May 2019 16: 51
    No honor and conscience. The pro-Western "elite" again trampled the authority of Russia into shit. We’ll pay 60 million euros now, we’ll be back, in a year they’ll start hauling us back against the table. Oh, Putin, Putin.
    1. NumbertoN
      NumbertoN
      -3
      18 May 2019 19: 00
      First you need to familiarize yourself with the text of the article, and only then begin to torment Claudia. Oh, Balda give, Balda give.
      1. Vladai
        Vladai
        +1
        18 May 2019 20: 40
        Russia, before we were dishonored all over the world, was an absolutely equal MEMBER of these dead from the point of view of efficiency for us organizations of Euro-perverts. We paid as nice, even prepayments at the tearful requests of Barroso. And we were put in cancer by deputies of Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and had cannons, iron ore, etc., which for all the time of our participation in PACE, the EU have not achieved a single pro-Russian initiative. Now we, as a prostitute, are again allowed to the table. When they are full, they will throw in us scraps and also have. The return should have been connected with our laurels with the complete abolition of European sanctions on the industries that the finger of the Kremlin would have indicated. Then I would clap to the Great Foreign Ministry itself and Volodino-Matvienko. But they threatened him with punishment, and farted loudly into a puddle, disgracing Russia in front of our real allies.
        For the gifted, I propose to conduct such a superintelligent and difficult experiment as self-education - take paper, find on the internet a list of deputies from Russia and their assistants in the EU and PACE, find them on Wiki, see where their children and wives have studied and live now. Then wait for the New List of Deputies from Russia and compare this list with the previous one. Then we take a pencil and cross out the coincidences in both lists. Then sit down, grab your head and turn on the mosk on the subject of the question: “Why do our deputies go there if there is zero benefit from them?” As soon as enlightenment comes, you need to go to this site and express your most intelligent opinion. If possible.
        1. NumbertoN
          NumbertoN
          0
          19 May 2019 13: 04
          Well, if you just grab a head of cabbage with your hands and turn on your brain for the question: "Who needs a bunch of crap superimposed above." And then, indeed, as soon as the epiphany comes, no longer go to the American embassy at all. As for insight, of course, it is unlikely to come with an irresistible craving for thirty pieces of silver.
          1. Vladai
            Vladai
            -1
            19 May 2019 18: 22
            This bunch of shit is for someone who loves to eat it. This is especially true for the not-so-distant pro-Putin jackals, calling themselves Putin-style patriots. Such a Sochi-Novogarevsky syndrome. What Putin does not do is absolute divine truth. Like sheep hang noodles on their ears and continue to steal, move to London, and the bullheads with the brain washed by his charisma consider him their dad.
            It is on such a brainless herd that the actions of the Rotenbergs, Tishenoks, deputies and billionaire senators are calculated. And the sheep silently chew their food and stomp like mankurts.))))
  3. Bakht
    Bakht
    +2
    18 May 2019 17: 26
    A man approaches a girl:
    “Will you sleep with me for $ 50000?”
    - Yes.
    - and for 100 rubles?
    - who do you take me for ?!
    - for whom I accept you, we have already figured out, the question is only in price.
  4. 2cool
    2cool
    +1
    19 May 2019 08: 34
    They will return the opportunity to participate, what will it be? Well, that's another question. More worried why should pay for the lack of vote 60 million ?! From the time of deprivation to the moment of restoration we owe nothing! Or a penalty in case of emergency. And so it turns out they threw it on the rights of delegation, pay the full cost, it won’t surprise if they still take +% for late payments. They need to be taught so that the situation does not happen again.
  5. Oleg RB
    Oleg RB
    -2
    19 May 2019 17: 33
    That is not a rare case when the title contradicts the text itself bully
  6. Port
    Port
    +1
    23 May 2019 13: 35
    It was necessary to leave this sharazhka, in custody of the Svidomo than feed the enemies of Russia again.

    PS It looks like someone’s asses really missed the cozy and profitable seats in PACE, and free voyages to European brothels.