He informed that Forum participants would discuss “general approaches to legislative initiatives that will determine the future of mankind, these are issues of the digital economy, artificial intelligence, inter-parliamentary cooperation, and international security.” “These are all topics of round tables and sections that will be filled with specific content,” he added.
He also noted that representatives of 132 countries, more than thirty of which will be represented by speakers, came to the Russian capital to participate in the International Forum “Development of Parliamentarism”. The Forum is also attended by the leadership of 11 major inter-parliamentary unions.
Petr Tolstoy
Petr Olegovich
said that “not only parliamentarians came to the Forum but also experts, our friends and partners from different countries representing different points of view that allows showing the whole panorama of opinions on a particular issue.”
“The initiative of Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin
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) to hold this Forum, as we are holding it for the second time, has shown its effectiveness. The number of participants has more than doubled, and interest in Russia is only increasing,” concluded the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma.
In his turn, the head of the LDPR faction Vladimir Zhirinovskii
Vladimir Volfovich
stressed that ”international meetings of parliamentarians are very important and beneficial.“
According to him, the International Forum “Development of Parliamentarism” will allow, in particular, to unite the efforts of parliamentarians in the fight against terrorism and in solving environmental problems.
The opinion of the participants
Speaker of the Council of Representatives of the National Assembly of Bahrain (lower chamber of the parliament) Fawzia Abdulla Zainal thanked for the invitation to the Forum.
“I am very pleased to be here with you today. We want to develop relations between our parliaments,” she said.
Fawzia Abdulla Zainal added that the Bahrain Parliament followed the last year International Forum “Development of Parliamentarism”.
“We have noticed great progress and we want to learn from the Russian Federation how to develop inter-parliamentary relations,” she concluded.
