“Often we
just avoid talking about problems,” said 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)
. He stressed that
parliamentarians need to recognize the current problems that exist not only in international relations, ‘but also with the institutions established
earlier, as well as compliance with international treaties and agreements.’
The Chairman of the State Duma noted that the UN is now being criticized: “It is being ignored; individual decisions on the deployment of troops and interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states are being made. It is unacceptable“.
He also pointed out that WTO rules are not respected nowadays.
“Trade wars are unleashed towards China, Russia, Turkey, and Iran. The sanctions affect the states of the European Union,” said Viacheslav Volodin. However, not a single inter-parliamentary organization has demanded to end the violation of previously adopted international agreements.
The Chairman of the State Duma emphasized that international parliamentary structures were created to discuss and find solutions to problems on the basis of equal rights, however, ”they are increasingly playing the role of political organizations, which aim reduces to various controversial assessments and monitoring, and this does more harm than good“ while ”double standards have become such a mundane approach to international relations that no one pays any attention to this.“
Viacheslav Volodin also spoke about violations of the agreements in the field of global security, in particular, the US withdrawal from the INF Treaty.
“If this poses a threat to the entire world community, we must do everything to maintain peace. To remain silent in this situation is unacceptable and dangerous,” said the Chairman of the State Duma.
He emphasized the responsibility of parliamentarians to citizens and suggested using the format of the Meeting of Speakers of Eurasian Countries’ Parliaments to develop concrete decisions in the framework of harmonization of legislation, development of model laws in the field of combating drug trafficking, security and interregional cooperation, and migration policy.
“It is
necessary to propose model laws in the sphere of combating terrorism,” the Chairman of the State Duma emphasized. These laws should allow the formation of a single list of terrorist organizations. “This will be a real
parliamentarians’ contribution to the fight against terrorism,” he said.
Viacheslav Volodin noted that the format of the Meeting of Speakers has grown into a large-scale international event.
He also thanked Nursultan Nazarbayev for his initiative of Eurasian integration, which he proposed 25 years ago. Today, the Eurasian Economic Union brings together an increasing number of participants, the Chairman of the State Duma emphasized.
