Council of Europe to allow Russia to vote again

Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipil', left, and Foreign Minister Timo Soini attend at the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Council of Europe's annual meeting in Helsinki, Finland Friday, May 17, 2019.

Russia will now have to accredit a delegation to the Council of Europe before it can start voting on motions. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov welcomed the declaration and reaffirmed Russia’s commitments including paying the fees. Lavrov said Russia values “the positive contribution” that the Council of Europe has made to resolving humanitarian issues as well as improving Russia’s justice system.

Ukraine’s foreign minister unexpectedly cancelled his attendance of the meeting in Finland at the last minute, expecting the positive vote for Russia. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who is meeting Lavrov later in the day, said before the meeting that “it is not in our interests” to keep Russia out.

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Joestradamus91 slow rollout to dropping the Russian sanctions. Good. It's happening MAGA

Russia allowed to vote on human rights whilst giving its population little rights, imprisoning crimean tartars and bombing civilians, schools and hospitals(including maternity hospitals with children in incubators) in Syria. NoCredibility

don't rush to please your patrons - coe did not restore any rights, because it had not deprived russia of any rights... it was the parliamentary assembly, which deprived russia of voting rights, and is under pressure to amend its procedures to appease russia

A-holes. Russia should be thrown out not given any rights!

It is noteworthy that Russia has not fulfilled a single European demand for Ukraine Crimea and Donbass, nothing at all, (except of making bribes and transferring Nordstream shares to Germans?), but Russia won the right to vote among European democracies CorruptEU

NATOSource Lol, what a bunch of pussies, did Russia returned Crimea and paid what it is due?

Has Russia returned Crimea ?

I guess American Press won't be laughing off the risks of Trump like they were a few years ago. Encouraging people not to worry about dire problems might be seen as very unethical.

The eurobureaucRats thought, they could continue getting tens of millions dollars from Russia while denying its voting and speaking rights. And all this after they supported the coup d'etat in Kiev which created all the current mess. Now they saw Russia won't bow and won't pay.

NATOSource Tell me again why NATO is needed? Russia invades Crimea and Ukraine. Kills Russian journalists. Assassinated people in England. Props up corrupt regimes in Venezuela & Iran. Yet Europe provides Russia with cash (energy pipelines) and restores these voting right?

The reward for ending their illegal occupation of the Crimean peninsula... oh wait 🤔. Appeasement worked with Transnistria, Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine & Syria why stop now coe

Russia - Continuing the quest for legitimacy!

Increíble,Rusia sigue violando los derechos humanos en su territorio,viola la integridad territorial de Ucrania y ayuda para que en otros también sean violados Venezuela,Cuba,Nicaragua,el Consejo de Europa no ve

He just had a reporter thrown out of a window yesterday.

Dumb

This might be bad for Humans.

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