PACE spring session, where Russia can be deprived of the right to vote or to suspend its powers in the Assembly, opened in Strasbourg on Monday.
In connection with the Russian aggression against Ukraine PACE put forward initiatives - the deprivation Russia of the right to vote (Dane Michael Aastrup Jensen) and the termination of its mandate in the Assembly (Briton Robert Walter.)
Today the PACE Monitoring Committee will appoint a rapporteur who will prepare a report on the basis of which the adoption of sanctions is possible. In addition, a special debate on the situation in Ukraine, which is scheduled for Thursday, has been planned. The question on sanctions will be solved on the same day.
According to the head of the Russian delegation to the PACE, Alexander Pushkov, if it becomes clear that Russia will be deprived of power in PACE, then the delegation of the Russian Federation itself will announce its withdrawal from PACE. If the Russian delegation is deprived of voting rights, Russia will not resign.
At the last session the Azerbaijani delegation voted against imposing sanctions against Russia. This time the Russian delegation will also look for allies in order to avoid the imposition of sanctions against Moscow. -02D-
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Armenia is not against the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group, but does not consider it appropriate to discuss this issue now. "In the context of peace, we consider it possible to make a decision on the dissolution of the OSCE Minsk Group. When peace is an established fact, the existence of such a format may raise questions," Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at a press conference today. "The whole question is about the timing, we need to understand how effectively and correctly to turn such topics into a subject of discussion right now," the Armenian Prime Minister added.
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He expressed his willingness to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the border between the two countries. "A meeting with Ilham Aliyev could take place at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. I am open to such a format," Pashinyan said at a press conference today. According to Pashinyan, Armenia recently presented another proposal for a peace treaty to Azerbaijan.
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On August 31, Azerbaijan observes a "day of silence" before the Sunday’s early parliamentary elections for the unicameral Milli Majlis. All electoral campaigning is prohibited 24 hours before the voting. The early elections were initiated by the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party. This decision was motivated by the overlap of the scheduled elections in November with the global UN forum - the COP20 climate conference taking place in Baku.
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On August 30, at approximately 22:55, the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant in Metsamor was disconnected from the country's power grid, as reported by the Armenian Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure. The shutdown was caused by a lightning strike, which triggered the plant's safety systems to switch the station to a safe shutdown mode. Currently, the plant's staff is working on restarting the facility.
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