Putin is not a terrorist; Statute would “offend it”, decides Council of Europe

Organism rejects a document proposed by Ukrainians. “What happened now was an act of political censorship.”

O Council of Europe rejected statute “terrorist” a Vladimir Putin.

The decision of the body, more precisely the secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, rejected a proposal, an amendment in this regard.

It should be noted that the It is not the European Council chaired by António Costa. This organization is the main organization of human rights defense in Europe – but not part of the institutional framework of the European Union.

Six Ukrainian legislators, led by Oleksandr Merezhko, and Swedish deputy Markus Wiechel presented the proposal, trying to take the Council of European to hold the president of Russia by several Civilian terrorist acts.

A series of proposals was published on Wednesday but this was not accepted.

According to the secretariat of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe explained the Oleksandr Merzhko that “Designate a chief of state as a terrorist is equivalent to using offensive and insulting terms that are inappropriate in an official assembly document ”.

The Ukrainian reacted: “For any international lawyer, of course ‘terrorist’ is a legal term. Especially considering that the Assembly has already recognized Russia as a terrorist regime! ”He recalls.

“It’s not the secretariat’s role to decide what is offensive to whom. There are members of this organism that can reject my amendment – this is how the democratic process works. But what happened now is a Act of political censorship“, Acusou Oleksandr Merezhko.