Volodin: The State Duma Council decided to withdraw from the Parliamentary Conference of the Baltic Sea
The State Duma Council has decided to withdraw Russia from the Parliamentary Conference of the Baltic Sea (PCBM), said the speaker of the lower house of Parliament Vyacheslav Volodin.
“Today, the Council of the Duma adopted a decision on the withdrawal of the Russian Federation from the Parliamentary Conference of the Baltic Sea (PCBM). Permanent members of the PCBM are the parliaments of Germany, Denmark, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Finland, Sweden and Estonia. There is no dialogue with the parliamentarians of most of these countries today either in the format of this organization or through inter-parliamentary channels,” he said.
According to him, the responsibility for breaking parliamentary ties lies with those who “undermine the basic principles of the conference and use it to attack Russia”. He noted that the conference “stopped real cooperation, and the participating countries forgot about the interests of their own citizens.”
“The once useful format of multilateral dialogue has been turned into an instrument of anti-Russian policy. This makes no sense for further interaction within the framework of the PCBM,” Volodin summed up.
The Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference was established in 1991 as a forum for political dialogue between parliamentarians from the Baltic Sea region.
In the BSPC consists of 11 States, including the Baltic States, Scandinavia, Poland, Germany, Iceland and Russia. The Conference is convened once a year at the invitation of one of the participating parliaments.
Russia’s relations with other countries — participants of the conference have worsened against the background of the military operation in Ukraine. The EU countries, which include most of the PCBM countries, have already imposed several packages of sanctions against Moscow. The restrictions also affected the top officials of the state, who are now banned from visiting the EU.
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In addition, against the background of the special operation, the confrontation between Russia and NATO has intensified: the alliance has already held several emergency meetings and announced an increase in troops on the eastern flank. Only Sweden and Finland are not members of the alliance, but their governments have already announced their intention to apply for NATO membership in the near future.
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