Russia decided this Tuesday to start the process of “withdrawing from the Council of Europe”, accusing NATO and the European Union of making that body a tool in the service of their “political, military and economic expansion towards the east.”
On Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that “the notification of the Russian Federation’s withdrawal from the organization” was sent to the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe, Maria Bejinovich Boric.
This Tuesday, representatives of the five political groups in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe endorsed the opinion that will be sent to the Committee of Ministers to demand the expulsion of Russia, given its invasion of Ukraine. , an independent and sovereign country, a member of the Organization.
The extraordinary plenary will vote on Tuesday afternoon, after the Committee of Ministers, the executive body of the Council of Europe, decided on February 25 to suspend Russia’s participation after the invasion of Ukraine.
If the Council of Europe adopted the expulsion, it would not be the first time it had done so, as the Assembly of the Council in 1969 recommended the expulsion of Greece after the colonel’s coup, but the country left the organization before he was expelled. .
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