Russian Federation expelled from the Council of Europe.
Last week, I travelled to the Strasbourg to deliver a speech in favour of expelling the Russian Federation from the Council of Europe.
A special session of the Parliamentary Assembly took place to provide advice to the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers on what action they should follow next with regard to Russia. The Committee of Ministers, led by the UK, had already suspended Russia from any voting or representational rights at the Council but further action was required in view of the worsening situation in Ukraine.
Ukraine is a member of the Council of Europe and its women MPs, together with their children attended the debate whilst male MPs stayed at home to fight.
The Assembly rightly voted unanimously that the Russian Federation can no longer be a member State of the organisation and asked that they should be expelled.
The decision was taken at the end of a debate in which almost 200 members of the Parliamentary Assembly spoke.
