Austria allows Russian delegation to visit PA OSCE session

Austria has allowed Russian parliamentarians, against whom sanctions were imposed, to arrive in Vienna in order to participate in a session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at the end of February.

This was reported today by the deputy special representative of the Assembly on the fight against terrorism, Nikolay Kovalyov. "We have a message from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Austria, which states that individuals in the list, including those who under sanctions, are allowed to join the session,'' Gazeta.ru cites him as saying.