The delegation of the Russian Federation in the course of the meeting on the margins of the OSCE PA in Berlin invited the US parliamentarians to recreate the work of the Duma-Congress Commission, the initiative has not yet found support, Leonid Slutsky, the head of the State Duma Committee for International Affairs, said after the meeting.
“We proposed to create a commission” Duma-Congress “, they are still stamping with hackers, adoption, Syria, Ukraine,” Slutsky told reporters.
According to him, it is necessary to “get off the stamped positions,” he expressed the hope that the parties will still manage to reach specific formats of work.
Earlier, the parliaments of the two countries cooperated in the format of the “Duma-Congress” group, during which several meetings were held several times a year. The group’s interaction ceased after 2008.