Press release on the meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission of the Russian Federation for the Council of Europe Affairs

On June 17, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov chaired the 26th regular meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission of the Russian Federation for the Council of Europe Affairs.

The participants gave a principled assessment of the Council of Europe’s role as a tool of the United States and its allies to promote the collective West’s hostile policy towards the Russian Federation, and discussed ways to counter this policy.

They also considered the results of additional inventory of Russia’s participation in the Council of Europe conventions open to non-member states. Further interdepartmental policy on this issue was agreed upon based on an individual approach to the council’s each specific treaty, considering its practical significance for the efforts to ensure Russia’s national interests.