“All this is clear why this is being done, the goal is obvious ... to exacerbate the already difficult relations between Russia and the EU, in one way or another to influence the internal processes that are taking place in our country. At the same time, there is a novel, the authors of this, as they call it, a report, and I think this is just some kind of compilation, have agreed that the European Union should be ready not to recognize the results of the elections to the State Duma and raise the issue on the possible suspension of Russian participation in international parliamentary structures, in particular in PACE, if the elections are held in violation of democratic principles and norms of international law, ”Zakharova said.
According to her, “at the same time, it is obvious that the European Parliament intends to draw some conclusions on this score on the basis of the conclusions of those organizations that have simply withdrawn themselves under a far-fetched pretext from participating in the monitoring of the elections to the State Duma, or do not have anything to do with it. the process has nothing to do. "
“As before, we will give a firm rebuff to unacceptable interference in the national democratic processes of the Russian Federation,” Zakharova added.
Earlier it became known that the European Parliament approved the report of the Lithuanian deputy Andrius Kubilius with an appeal to the EU authorities to reconsider relations with Russia.
Member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Anton Morozov, in an interview with RT, commented on this report.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the once developed architecture of relations with Europe has now been destroyed by Brussels, which increasingly began to resort to unilateral sanctions bypassing the decisions of the UN Security Council.