On April 3, the Chairman of the State Duma, Viacheslav Volodin
Vyacheslav Victorovich
The Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the eighth convocation. Elected in single mandate constituency № 163 (Saratov constituency - Saratov Oblast)
, will meet with the President of the Republic of Angola, João Lourenço.
The parties will discuss issues of Russian-Angolan cooperation, as well as prospects for the development of inter-parliamentary interaction.
João Lourenço will also present his speech at the plenary session of the State Duma.
Earlier, the following foreign leaders presented their speeches at the plenary meetings of the State Duma of the seventh convocation: President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Italian Republic Roberto Fico (5 March 2019), President of the National Council of the Republic of Austria Wolfgang Sobotka (5 December 2018); President of the Republic of Moldova Igor Dodon (21 November 2018), Chairwoman of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia Maja Gojković (23 October 2018), President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in (21 June 2018), Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic Andrej Danko (15 November 2017) and Speaker of the Lower House of the Parliament of India Sumitra Mahajan (12 July 2017)
The State Duma has a deputy group on relations with the parliaments of the countries of Central and South Africa headed by Arkadii Ponomarev
Arkady Nikolaevich
.
On October 14–18, 2017, the Angolan delegation took part in the work of the 137th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in St. Petersburg.
