Following the PACE Bureau, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Thorbjorn Jagland, complained about the lack of contributions from Moscow and Ankara to the treasury, who said that without these financial injections of the oldest international organization,. According to him, it will reach 2020, RIA Novosti reports today.. "We can handle it by the end of next year.". On the approach of this period, I can assure you that I will take action, "- said Jagland. He added that he would leave his post if he did not manage to cope with the situation. Also, the Norwegian threatened Moscow with some punishments because of the refusal to contribute his share to the budget of the Council of Europe.

"There is a rule in the committee of ministers that if a member state does not pay contributions for three consecutive years, the committee of ministers must take some action. We are already approaching the end of this period, at the end of 2019, and then the Committee of Ministers will have to take action against the Russian Federation, "Jagland said.. On the eve of the emaciated organization of the organization, the member of the PACE Bureau, Lillian Mori Pasquier. The freezing of payments by Turkey and Russia led to an organization's budget deficit of € 18 million, as a result of which whole programs were sequestered.

The Russian delegation to PACE was deprived of its basic powers in April 2014 because of the events in Ukraine and the reunification of the Crimea with the Russian Federation. In response, our parliamentarians said they refused to work on such terms, and in 2016-2017 they did not send an application for confirmation of their authorities because of the Russophobic sentiments that persisted in Strasbourg. At the end of June 2017, Moscow notified that it was suspending payment of its contribution to the Council of Europe in connection with the Russian delegation in the PACE.