PACE to Finalize Draft Resolution on Russia's Credentials by Tuesday

Officials at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe will draft a resolution on the Russian delegation's credentials by Tuesday, Russia's PACE delegate Leonid Slutsky said.

STRASBOURG, January 26 (Sputnik) — A draft resolution on the Russian delegation's credentials in PACE will be finalized Monday night, Russia's PACE delegate Leonid Slutsky said.

"Tonight [Stefan] Schennah [PACE monitoring committee chairman] should finish his work on the report and the draft resolution which will be discussed tomorrow morning at the monitoring commission meeting," Slutsky, who is also the head of Russia's lower parliamentary house committee for Commonwealth of Independent State (CIS) affairs, said at the assembly's winter session.

"At the same meeting on Wednesday, the amendments to the resolution will be discussed," he added.

Russia's voting rights were suspended in the wake of Crimea's reunification with the country. The Russian delegation then walked out of PACE's spring session and refused to attend the summer session in protest.

Last week, the chairman of Russia's lower parliamentary house, Sergei Naryshkin, said Russia could suspend its work at PACE and even reconsider its membership in the Council of Europe, if the Russian delegation continued to be deprived of voting rights.

PACE's five-day winter session started earlier on Monday. The meeting's agenda is expected to include the Russian delegation's credentials, the humanitarian situation in Ukraine and the January 7 terrorist attacks in Paris.