China News Agency, Moscow, March 15 (Reporter Tian Bing) The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on the 15th announcing the start of the withdrawal procedure from the European Commission. The relevant notice was submitted to the Secretary-General of the European Commission on the same day.
NATO and EU states have abused their majority in the European Commission by turning the organization into a tool of anti-Russian policy and rejecting equal dialogue and all the principles upheld by the pan-European body, the statement said.
On February 25, the countries made a discriminatory decision to suspend Russia's representation in the statutory bodies of the Council of Europe.
"In this case, our country will not remain in the European Commission. The notification of withdrawal from the organization was submitted to the European Commission Secretary-General Maria Pejcinovich Bridge on March 15."
According to the TASS news agency, Peter Tolstoy, vice chairman of the Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament) and head of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council, confirmed on social media on the same day that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had informed the organization’s secretary. Submit the relevant letter for a long time.
On March 10, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement saying that Russia will no longer participate in the European Commission because the European Union and NATO countries continue to undermine the European Commission and the common European space for the rule of law.
Statistics show that the European Commission was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Strasbourg, France.
In January 1996, Russia was admitted as the 39th member of the committee.
On April 6, 2000, the Parliament of the Council of Europe decided to temporarily cancel the voting rights of the Russian parliamentary delegation on the grounds that Russia would not stop military operations in Chechnya.
In the first half of 2001, the European Commission restored Russia's voting rights.
In April 2014, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe passed a resolution to abolish Russia's voting rights and other rights on the grounds of the Crimea issue.
In June 2019, the Council of Europe passed a resolution restoring Russia's voting rights in the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly.
In January 2020, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe passed a resolution in its plenary session approving the full restoration of the rights of the Russian delegation.
On February 25 this year, the European Commission said it had decided to suspend Russia's representation in the Council of Europe's Council of Ministers and the Parliamentary Assembly as of today because of Russia's military action against Ukraine.
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