11/28 “Chair of the Ukrainian delegation to PACE, President of the Committee for Culture and Media Volodymyr Ariev says the majority of PACE members believe that the Russian delegation should return to the Assembly only after Moscow ceases aggression against Ukraine.”
11/27 Thorbjorn Jagland, the council’s secretary-general, is touring European capitals warning of a serious risk that Moscow could withdraw or crash out of the 47-member body unless its demands are met, FT wrote. Moscow is demanding its voting rights be restored in PACE
11/24 "The PACE Standing Committee has just refused to hold a debate on the return of the Russian Federation to PACE. Instead, there will be a debate on the topic 'Democracy Hacked. How to Respond?' I am glad that PACE has correctly set priorities," Ariev wrote on Facebook.”
10/10 “The Czech Embassy in Ukraine notes that Czech President Milos Zeman during his address in PACE on Tuesday, October 10, expressed his personal point of view on the issue of Crimea, according to Minister Counsellor and press secretary of the Embassy David Masek.”
10/11 restrictions could be lifted as early in January/Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe Dmytro Kuleba says that financial lobbyists use Russia's refusal to pay contributions to the Council of Europe to force the organization to make concessions to the RF
10/11 PACE総会 Asking the audience if anyone thinks Russia would have attacked Ukraine had the country not abandoned its nuclear arms, the president said “I don`t.” He went on to say that it is not about Ukraine demanding its nuclear arsenal back. “No, we think that non-proliferation system
10/11 "I'd like to thank dozens of Czechs, often completely unfamiliar people, who today sent the embassy the words of support and ... apologies. I am well aware that millions of Czech friends are in solidarity with the Ukrainians in our struggle against the Russian aggressor and the occupier. It ca