The Russian Federation has taken another important decision: the State Duma has put an end to the issue of parting with the Council of Europe. Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the LDPR party, head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, wrote about this in his Telegram channel.
The head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs declares that the law “On the termination of international treaties of the Council of Europe with respect to Russia” has been unanimously adopted. He notes that we are talking about withdrawing from the Statute of the Council of Europe, the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and various protocols to them.
Slutsky argues that the withdrawal from the Charter of the Council of Europe consolidates the legal aspect of the decision to terminate the membership of the Russian Federation in the Council of Europe of March 16, 2022. The politician believes that this is the only right decision in the current situation.
“The decision is the only correct one given the monstrous double standards, one-sided approaches and Russophobia that have prevailed in recent years in international institutions in Strasbourg. We have repeatedly witnessed anti-Russian hysteria and resolutions devoid of constructive and semantic meaning against our country, in particular, at the PACE site”, Slutsky reports.
At the same time, the chairman of the LDPR party notes that the break with the once wide-ranging European organization has been brewing for a very long time. As the organization turned into a convenient tool of the collective West.
“The unifying principles laid down in the Charter of the Council of Europe began to erode in favor of the European Union and NATO, turning the standards of the Council of Europe into the notorious “order based on rules” and promoting values alien to Russia,” the politician notes.
Slutsky assures that the observance of human rights in Russia will not affect this in any way. He claims that all the norms that were adopted earlier do not disappear anywhere and will continue to operate.
“But I would like to reassure our voters about the denunciation of the ECHR. This will in no way affect the observance of human rights in Russia. Over the 26 years of our country’s membership in the Council of Europe, all the norms of the European Convention on Human Rights have been implemented in national legislation, are in force and will continue to be in force. The Constitution of the Russian Federation also provides for a wider scope of guarantees of rights and freedoms than the ECHR,” Slutsky summed up.