The head of the State Duma international affairs committee, Leonid Slutsky, held successful negotiations with the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Ali Larijani, who announced his consent to visit Volgograd in September to attend the meeting of the inter-parliamentary commission. This was announced on Wednesday, August 1, the press service of the head of the international affairs committee.
“We held talks with the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Ali Larijani. In the beginning of September in Volgograd the first – historical will take place! – Meeting of the Commission on Cooperation between the State Duma and the Islamic Council. Cooperation between the parliaments of our countries is reaching a qualitatively new level. The commission will be headed by the speakers Vyacheslav Volodin and Ali Larijani, “Leonid Slutsky said.
According to him, during the last meeting many issues on the international agenda were discussed, including the role of parliaments in the promotion of infrastructurally significant and trade and economic projects between the two countries.
“Ali Larijani also made a final decision to participate in the third Eurasian meeting of the Speakers of Parliaments on October 8-11 in Antalya. It was also decided to hold the second Islamabad conference of the speakers of the parliaments of Russia, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China in Tehran this November, “the parliamentarian said, noting that the conference will focus on regional security and interregional cooperation.
As emphasized by Slutsky, in the plane of parliamentary diplomacy a prototype of a new security architecture is being created in the central and southern parts of the Eurasian continent.
“A meeting was also held with my counterpart, the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Policy and National Defense of the Islamic Council, Heshmatullah Falahatpishe, with whom we will soon hold the next joint meeting of our committees.
Iran continues to operate on the Astana site as a guarantor country for the ceasefire in Syria. Iran highly estimates Russia’s efforts to confront international terrorism. I think that the parliamentarians of our countries should continue to promote the development of the constitutional process in the RA, including at the site of the parliament of Syria, “Leonid Slutsky said. This is reported by Rambler.