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The Council of the State Duma decided to suspend the payment of contributions to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

April 3, 2023

State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said that the State Duma Council discussed the issue of Russia’s payment of contributions to the budget of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation.
Consequently, it was decided to suspend the payment of contributions for the current year and to credit for this year the contribution paid in 2022.
Volodin explained this by the fact that Russia is faced with attempts to prevent the work of the delegation to the OSCE PA, and it makes no sense to pay for something the Russian Federation does not did not participate.The message The State Duma Council has decided to suspend the payment of contributions to the OSCE PA

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