Earlier in July, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) urged IPC to suspend Russian Paralympic team from the Paralympic Games to be held on September 7-18 in Rio following a report of the WADA independent commission led by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, which accused Russia of having run a state-controlled doping program.
"The International Paralympic Committee comes out of a clear blue sky. There is not a word about Paralympic athletes in [McLaren's] report, all of a sudden the IPC schedules a meeting for August 3 to hear the case of the Russian Paralympic Committee," Mutko told journalists.
The Russian minister added that the team would appeal to the European Court of Human Rights if banned from competition by the IPC.
On Sunday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) left it to the respective international federations to decide whether individual Russian athletes should be allowed to compete at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games banning all athletes with a record of doping violations from participating in the competitions.
