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PACE Vice President Volodymyr Ariev has said PACE refused Ukraine’s request to hold an urgent debate over the illegal election of the Russian president in occupied Crimea and other aspects of Russian policy.

“By the votes of the leftists and socialists, the PACE Bureau has voted down urgent debates on the request of the United Kingdom, Ukraine and others over Salisbury, illegal elections in Crimea, etc. This is all against the background of the corruption scandal in PACE with the facts of bribery and outright lobbyism, which was promulgated yesterday,” he wrote on Facebook April 23.

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