Russia, on Tuesday, officially quit the Council of Europe, a human rights watchdog based in Strasbourg, pre-empting possible expulsion over its attack on its neighbour, Ukraine, theThis followed an earlier imposition of sanctions on the United States President, Joe Biden, and persons associated with him and representatives of the US leadership, on Tuesday, by the Russian Foreign Ministry.
“In response to a series of unprecedented sanctions prohibiting, among other things, entry into the United States for senior officials of the Russian Federation…From March 15, President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Secretary of Defense L. Austin and 10 others are included in the Russian ‘stop list’ and are to be sanctioned in retaliation and are barred from entering Russia,” the statement said.
The head of the Russian delegation at the Council’s Parliamentary Assembly, Pyotr Tolstoy, handed a letter from Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to the Council’s secretary-general announcing Russia’s decision to quit the Council, the JPost reports. According to the JPost, the Council of Europe had previously suspended Russia’s rights of representation on February 25, in response to its invasion of Ukraine, which had commenced a day prior.
“The course of events becomes irreversible. Russia does not intend to put up with these subversive actions carried out by the collective West in line with the imposition of a ‘rules-based order’ to replace international law trampled by the United States and its satellites,” the Russian foreign ministry said.
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It's the right decision to do...... Let the Cold war continue
The basis of invading a sovereign state is absolutely wrong. They dont get it I guess
Good, tit for tat
E no concern me