It is necessary to collect a
minimum of 30 signatures of the PACE members representing at least five
national delegations to exclude the Ukrainian parliament of the PACE membership
MOSCOW, December 8. /TASS/. Members of the lower house
of Russia’s parliament (State Duma) on Monday proposed to raise at the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) the issue of
inadmissibility of statements of Ukrainian politicians who supported extremists
in Chechnya.
“I share the indignation of the speaker of the Chechen
Legislative Assembly. The Parliamentary Assembly should by all means raise the
issue of inadmissibility of public calls for extremism made by deputies of the
Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (parliament),” member of the Russian delegation to
PACE, first deputy head of the lower house international affairs committee
Leonid Kalashnikov told TASS. According to him, it’s about time the Assembly
prepared a separate report, condemning all the crimes of the current Kiev
authorities.
As for the possibility of stripping the Ukrainian
delegation of powers, to this end it is necessary to collect a minimum of 30
signatures of the PACE members, representing at least five national
delegations, Kalashnikov said.
Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Chechen
Republic Dukuvakha Abdurakhmanov earlier Monday called for excluding the
Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe.
“We heard purely fascist calls from Ukrainian deputies.
The Verkhovna Rada quietly supports these criminal statements and demonstrates
that Ukraine has chosen the Nazi policy. I consider membership of the Verkhovna
Rada [delegation] in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
inadmissible,” he said.
Last Friday, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said the
republic would institute criminal proceedings against Ukrainian parliamentarians
Yuri Bereza, Andrei Levus and Igor Mosiichuk, who had supported militants’
attacks on a traffic control post in Grozny. They also called for stepping up
the attempts to destabilise the situation in Russia, particularly in Chechnya,
he said.
Source: ITAR-TASS 08-12-2014
