"At the IPC General Assembly in Bahrain, IPC members voted 74-65 (13 abstentions) against a motion to fully suspend NPC (National Paralympic Committee) Russia for breaches of its constitutional membership obligations," the IPC said.
The decision comes two weeks before the International Olympic Committee session in Mumbai where it will also discuss Russia's and Belarus' participation at the Paris Olympics next year.
The IPC had last year suspended the paralympic committees of both countries and banned their athletes from competing following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The IOC has not sanctioned the Russian or Belarus Olympic Committee or Russian members of the IOC.
In March, however, it issued a first set of recommendations for international sports federations to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to return.
Persons:
Benoit Tessier, Karolos Grohmann, Andrew Cawthorne
Organizations:
Ephemere, Rights, International Paralympic, IPC, Assembly, National Paralympic Committee, International Olympic, Russia's, Paris Olympics, IOC, Belarus Olympic, Thomson
Locations:
Paris, France, Russia, Bahrain, Mumbai, Belarus, Ukraine, Belarusian