Russia withdrawn and cease to be member of Council of Europe
The general secretary of the Council of Europe, Marija Pejcinovic, had stressed that the process that has ended with that expulsion was opened because the Ukraine attack “goes against everything we defend and constitutes a violation of our status and the European Convention on Human rights”.
The ambassadors meeting in the Committee of Ministers to formalize the exclusion had at the same time the request of the Russian authorities to leave the organization under another of the articles of its statute, 7.
But what has prevailed is the process opened on February 25 to apply Article 8, and that means that this is the first expulsion from a member state in the nearly 73-year history of the organization.
DPA Notes: The Council of Europe is an international organisation founded after World War 2, with 46 members that largely doesn’t seemed to have any meaningful purpose with any enforceable powers.
The only meaningful part seemed to be it’s contribution to European Union’s flag and the European Anthem.
Russia decided to resign (or it got expelled) from the council and the flag is subsequently lowered on the 16 March 2022.