Maria Zakharova
Moscow will take note of the refusal of entry to the territory of Germany, Vice-speaker of the state Duma Igor Lebedev and the head of the Duma Committee on physical culture, sport, tourism and youth Affairs Mikhail Degtyarev. This was stated by the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, reports TASS on Friday, March 10.
“This approach of the German authorities is contrary to common sense and is counterproductive. Will take it into account in its bilateral relations with Germany”, — said the diplomat.
On the refusal of entry in a German Bonn reported before. Parliamentarians had planned to take part in the meeting with the leadership of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) on the issue of restoring membership of the Russian Paralympic Committee (RCC) in the organization.
30 January on the website of PKR was reported that the Executive Committee of the IPC did not allow the Russian Paralympic athletes to take part in the selection for the Olympic games 2018 in Pyeongchang.
In August last year, the IPC dismissed the Russian team from the Paralympic games in 2016 in full force and excluded from RCC membership. The decision was made on the basis of the report of the independent Commission of the world anti-doping Agency (WADA) led by Richard McLaren.
Brussels began to introduce restrictive measures against Moscow in 2014 on the accession of Crimea to Russia and the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine. In addition to individual sanctions, which include a ban on entering the EU and freezing of assets, which includes two package measures: the number of sectors of the Russian economy (prolonged until 31 July 2017), and also against the Crimea (extended until 23 June 2017).
Today in stop-list in total includes 152 people and 37 organizations.