After unconditional confirmation of the authority of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), the delegations of Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovakia, Estonia, and Georgia have announced they will return home to consult their parliaments and governments about the joint actions in the Assembly in the next sessions.

“Yesterday, the Ukrainian delegation to the PACE declared they would walk out. Today Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovakia, Estonia and Georgia together stood by Ukraine side by side. The delegations declared the lifting of anti-Russian sanctions is unacceptable. And [there is] a threat from such a decision to the very existence of the PACE. And we now ask our parliaments and governments to make a decision on our future participation in the PACE work,” Ukrainian MP, Ukrainian delegate to the PACE Leonid Yemets wrote on Facebook on June 26 evening.