MOSCOW, May 21. /TASS/. Unfriendly countries could move to once again impose sanctions on the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC), making it all-important for the organization to maintain international cooperation, RPC President Pavel Rozhkov said on Thursday.
"An important decision was announced in Seoul last year to lift sanctions from our [Russian] Paralympic Committee," Rozhkov said speaking at a Russia-hosted international forum titled "Development of international sports cooperation."
"There’s still a chance that these decisions could be reversed," he continued. "Unfriendly countries could again move to exclude the RPC from the Paralympic movement."
"Therefore, it is important to maintain international cooperation. Representatives of 40 countries have come to us today [for the conference in Russia], they weren’t afraid. We pay special attention to diplomacy, learning a lesson in this regard over the past 10 years."
The Russian national team was allowed to participate in the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games in Italy earlier in the year under the country’s flag and to the tune of the national anthem.
