Irma Amaya Echeverría expressed hope that the signing of the agreement would mark the beginning of further fruitful cooperation with the parliaments and inter-parliamentary associations of South America like PARLACEN and PARLATINO, as well as with PARLASUR.
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)
recalled that earlier the State Duma has signed
an agreement with the largest regional structure PARLATINO and plans to establish
a High-Level Commission with this inter-parliamentary association to work more
effectively on a concrete agenda.
“We will certainly enhance our cooperation with the countries of Latin America, because our relations are historically very good. And it is important that it should also be shown in the development of the parliamentary dimension,” said Viacheslav Volodin.
Earlier the Chairman of the State Duma on the margins of the Forum held bilateral meetings with the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Mustafa Şentop , Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Arab Republic of Egypt Ali Abdel Aal, Chairman of the National Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Asad Qaiser, President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Angola Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Kingdom of Morocco Habib El Malki, , Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Zambia Patrick Matibini, President of the National Assembly of the Republic of the Congo Isidore Mvouba and with President of the Chamber of Representatives of the General Assembly of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay Cecilia Bottino and President of the Parliament of MERCOSUR Daniel Caggiani and with Speaker of the Federal National Council of the United Arab Emirates Amal Al Qubaisi.
The Second International Forum ”Development of Parliamentarism“ is being held on July 1–3 on the initiative of the State Duma. This year, representatives from 132 states came to the Forum. About 800 experts and parliamentarians, including 14 international parliamentary organizations, are taking part in the events. 41 speakers representing the national parliaments are participating in the Forum. This is twice the number of the Forum 2018: 19 speakers of parliaments took part in the Forum last year.
