{"id":31426,"date":"2022-03-16T16:42:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/?p=31426"},"modified":"2022-03-16T16:42:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:42:50","slug":"the-russian-federation-is-excluded-from-the-council-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/the-russian-federation-is-excluded-from-the-council-of-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russian Federation is excluded from the Council of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"chapeau\">In an extraordinary meeting this morning, the\u00a0<strong>Committee of Ministers<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.coe.int\/cm\/pages\/result_details.aspx?objectid=0900001680a5d7d9\">decided<\/a>, in the context of the procedure launched under Article 8 of the Statute of the Council of Europe, that the Russian Federation ceases to be a member of the Council of Europe as from today, after 26 years of membership.<\/p>\n<p><b><u>For information:<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"list1\">\n<li>On 15 March, the Parliamentary Assembly unanimously adopted an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pace.coe.int\/en\/files\/29885\/html\">Opinion<\/a>\u00a0which considered that the Russian Federation can no longer be a member State of the Organisation.<\/li>\n<li>On 15 March, the Government of the Russian Federation informed the Secretary General of its withdrawal from the Council of Europe in accordance with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coe.int\/en\/web\/conventions\/full-list?module=treaty-detail&amp;treatynum=001\">Statute<\/a>\u00a0of the Council if Europe and of its intention to denounce the European Convention on Human Rights.<\/li>\n<li>On 10 March, the Committee of Ministers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.coe.int\/cm\/Pages\/result_details.aspx?ObjectID=0900001680a5c619\">decided<\/a>\u00a0to consult the Parliamentary Assembly on potential further use of Article 8 of the Statute.<\/li>\n<li>On 25 February, following an exchange of views with the Parliamentary Assembly, the Committee of Ministers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.coe.int\/cm\/Pages\/result_details.aspx?ObjectID=0900001680a5a360\">decided<\/a>\u00a0to launch the procedure provided by Article 8 of the Statute and agreed to suspend the Russian Federation from its rights of representation in the Council of Europe, in accordance with its relevant\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.coe.int\/cm\/pages\/result_details.aspx?objectid=0900001680a5b15f\">Resolution<\/a>\u00a0on legal and financial consequences on the suspension.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Russia joined the Council of Europe on 28 February 1996.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an extraordinary meeting this morning, the\u00a0Committee of Ministers\u00a0decided, in the context of the procedure launched under Article 8 of the Statute of the Council of Europe, that the Russian Federation ceases to be a member of the Council of Europe as from today, after 26 years of membership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,54],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31427,"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31426\/revisions\/31427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}