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Belgian MEP who helped Russia backed Ukrainian head of Polish Open Dialogue group: report

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Julian Horodyski 26.06.2019 16:30
Belgian MEP Petra De Sutter, who helped to restore Russia’s voting rights in the Council of Europe, in the recent past backed the Ukrainian head of what has been described as a Polish anti-government group, a news website has reported.
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De Sutter, a member of the Green party, authored a resolution which this week ended Russia’s suspension in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

Russia had been suspended in the PACE since Moscow’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in 2014.

In Tuesday’s vote, 118 Council of Europe lawmakers were in favour of Russia being reinstated, while 62 were opposed and 10 abstained.

Top officials in former Soviet-bloc countries have blasted the decision.

De Sutter also signed an appeal to grant EU citizenship to Lyudmila Kozlovska, the head of the controversial Polish Open Dialogue Foundation, after Kozlovska was last year banned from entering the European Union, news website niezalezna.pl reported on Tuesday.

Last year, Poland’s Internal Security Agency opened an investigation into the activities of the Open Dialogue Foundation.

Stanisław Żaryn, a spokesman for Poland's security services chief, said earlier this year that the foundation caught the eye of investigators after it incited “sabotage aimed at the Polish state.”

(jh/pk)

Source: niezalezna.pl

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