The Chairman of the State Duma Sergey Naryshkin entrusted the Committee on Foreign Affairs to investigate the possibility of adoption of the announcement condemning “the annexation of the German Democratic Republic by the Federal Republic of Germany in 1989,” TASS informs.
The deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Nikolay Ivanov advanced such initiative today during the discussing of working arrangement of the Chamber of Deputies.
“Dear Sergey Eugenevich, we all felt with you on the January 26th during the press-conference in the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe, when you were confronting accusations of the chairman Anne Brasseur blaming Russia for occupation of Crimea,” he said to the speaker.
“In response to that, I suggest to entrust the Committee on Foreign Affairs to prepare the announcement condemning annexation of the German Democratic Republic by the Federal Republic of Germany in 1989. Moreover, unlikely to Crimea, there was no nationwide referendum in the German Democratic Republic,” he reminded.
Reacting to this suggestion, Naryshkin asked the special-purpose committee of the State Duma on Foreign Affairs “to examine it attentively and report about it separately”.
Previously talking to press together with Brasseur, the chairman of the State Duma explained why the April decision of the PACE regarding sanctions against the Russia delegation was illegal.
“The reference of the April decision of the PACE to the Crimean events is ineligible because the reunion of Crimea with Russia was conducted on the ground of the very democratic procedure – the referendum, when 97% of Crimean population expressed themselves for the reunion with their Motherland – with Russia,” the politician reminded.
According to his opinion, if to follow the logic of the ones, who call this historical event an “annexation”, then authors of this logic can easily say that the FRG annexed the Eastern Germany. “But Russia is always totally against such logic both in case with the GDR and in case with the Republic of Crimea. We always oppose “double standards,” the speaker concluded.
