ULAANBAATAR (Sputnik) — The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) will soon consider a draft resolution, proposed by Russia, on the inadmissibility of sanctions against the parliamentarians, Sergei Naryshkin said.
"On the platform of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, I introduced the draft resolution, which prohibits any sanctions against members of parliament. I hope that in the nearest future, the resolution will be considered and adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly," Naryshkin told reporters after a meeting with OSCE PA President Ilkka Kanerva.
Naryshkin met Kanerva for bilateral talks prior to the opening of the session.
In July, within the framework of OSCE PA summer session in Helsinki, Russia introduced a draft resolution against the use of sanctions against the parliamentarians of the OSCE participating states, as well as about the need of the OSCE participating states to develop and implement joint measures to prevent manifestations of neo-Nazism.
Finland denied entry visas to several Russian lawmakers, including Naryshkin, who were invited to participate in a session of the OSCE PA being held in the country. After that the Russian delegation decided to refrain from participating in the summer session of the OSCE PA in Helsinki.
"We consider this to be an unacceptable action, an attack on the values of parliamentary democracy. This should not be repeated, because it is a manifestation of political shamelessness and ignoring the principles of an open international dialogue," head of the Russian delegation to OSCE PA told reporters after a meeting with OSCE PA Head Ilkka Kanerva.
The three-day OSCE PA session opened on Wednesday in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, bringing together lawmakers from OSCE participating states.
Nearly 200 parliamentarians from 57 countries gathered in the Mongolian capital on September 16-18 for the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s 2015 Autumn Meeting.
