The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will discuss Russian-Georgian relations and Holodomor at its spring session.
PACE will discuss a report on the consequences of the August 2008 Russian-Georgian war for the fifth time since October 2008, when PACE asked Russia to reverse its recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia but did not support radical proposals to deprive Russia of the right to vote.
Russia recognized the independence of South Ossetia and another former Georgian republic, Abkhazia, following the five-day war in August 2008, which started when Georgia attacked South Ossetia in an attempt to bring it back under central control.
In October 2009, when PACE also discussed the events in South Ossetia, it again did not support the proposal to deprive Russia of the voting right, but the Georgian delegation said it would continue raising the issue.
The PACE spring session that started Monday and is to end Friday will also discuss a report commemorating the victims of the Soviet 1932-1933 famine, known as Holodomor, that includes an amendment recognizing it as a genocide of the Ukrainian people.
More than 3 million people perished in Ukraine due to the famine, and Ukrainian nationalists say Russia, as the legal successor of the Soviet Union, should bear responsibility. Former president Viktor Yushchenko, who was known for his anti-Russian policies, led Ukraine's efforts to secure international recognition of the famine as an act of genocide.
STRASBOURG, April 28 (RIA Novosti)
