The Council of Europe is no longer an organization promoting unity of European nations, so it makes no sense for Russia to return there, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said in an interview to Parlamentskaya Gazeta, published on Friday.
"I would like to remind you that the Council of Europe, according to Article 1 of its Statute, was created ‘to achieve a greater unity’ of European nations. Western efforts turned it into something opposite. It makes no sense to return to an organization of this kind," he said.
Earlier, Putin appointed Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko his official representative to the Russian parliament’s hearings on the termination of the Council of Europe’s international treaties in relation to Russia.
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