Russia and Belarus have regained full membership rights in the International Paralympic Committee after member organisations voted to lift their partial suspensions at the IPC General Assembly in Seoul.

The two countries were banned from Paralympic competitions after Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, but the IPC voted the following year to allow them to compete as neutrals at the Paris Paralympic Games last year — without flags or anthems being played.

Belarus has been a staging ground for Russian troops and weapons during the war.

"IPC member organisations voted not to maintain the partial suspensions of the National Paralympic Committees of Belarus and Russia," the IPC said in a statement on Saturday. "The IPC will work with the two members involved to put practical arrangements in p

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