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We couldn't be in favor of the decision to deprive Russia of voting
rights: H. Naghdalyan
16:02 | January 29,2015 | Politics
Yesterday at the PACE winter session a decision was made that the
decision of depriving Russian delegation of the voting right is valid
till the spring session. The decision of depriving Russia of the
voting right was made still in 2014 after annexation of Crimea.
Hermine Naghdalyan, Mher Shahgeldyan and Naira Karapetyan from our
delegation were present at the session. On the position of our
delegation we spoke to the head of the delegation, the NA
vice-President Hermine Naghdalyan, who said:
"This voting decided whether Russian delegation would be deprived of
the voting right or not. We couldn't be in favor of such decision, as
Russia is our strategic ally and partner and as we think that the PACE
must be the platform, where all can speak and raise their positions,
can try to find opportunities for rapprochement and understanding
through discussions, so our voting is reasoned.
There were many amendments regarding the report of Austrian MP Shennah
and there were such amendments, which substantially aggravated the
situation and we were against them. Before the session, the report was
discussed at the monitoring committee and there also our positions
were in favor of our Russian partners.
But I also must remind the result of the voting- 160 European
delegates voted in favor of the termination of powers of the Russian
delegation, which was the majority, and in fact 42 opposed and 11
abstained delegates didn't agree with such decision including us.
As you see our delegation is small and our 3-4 votes didn't change the result."
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rights: H. Naghdalyan
16:02 | January 29,2015 | Politics
Yesterday at the PACE winter session a decision was made that the
decision of depriving Russian delegation of the voting right is valid
till the spring session. The decision of depriving Russia of the
voting right was made still in 2014 after annexation of Crimea.
Hermine Naghdalyan, Mher Shahgeldyan and Naira Karapetyan from our
delegation were present at the session. On the position of our
delegation we spoke to the head of the delegation, the NA
vice-President Hermine Naghdalyan, who said:
"This voting decided whether Russian delegation would be deprived of
the voting right or not. We couldn't be in favor of such decision, as
Russia is our strategic ally and partner and as we think that the PACE
must be the platform, where all can speak and raise their positions,
can try to find opportunities for rapprochement and understanding
through discussions, so our voting is reasoned.
There were many amendments regarding the report of Austrian MP Shennah
and there were such amendments, which substantially aggravated the
situation and we were against them. Before the session, the report was
discussed at the monitoring committee and there also our positions
were in favor of our Russian partners.
But I also must remind the result of the voting- 160 European
delegates voted in favor of the termination of powers of the Russian
delegation, which was the majority, and in fact 42 opposed and 11
abstained delegates didn't agree with such decision including us.
As you see our delegation is small and our 3-4 votes didn't change the result."
http://en.a1plus.am/1204933.html