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Leonid Slutskiy: “PACE may consider the report on the credentials of national delegations in autumn”

The Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs informed that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) may consider a report on amending the rules and procedures relating to challenging the credentials of national delegations, including voting rights, at its autumn session

The next session of the Commission on Cooperation between the State Duma and the Majlis of Iran will be held in Iran at the beginning of 2019

It was announced by Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin during the Сommission’s session that was held in Volgograd

The first session of the Commission on Cooperation between the State Duma and the Majlis of Iran is being held in Volgograd

It is being conducted by Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin and Chairman of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Majlis) Ali Larijani

Viacheslav Volodin and Ali Larijani discussed the development of the inter-parliamentary relations between Russia and Iran

The Chairman of the State Duma and the Chairman of the Majlis of Iran noted the strengthening of the dynamics of inter-parliamentary relations between the two countries, emphasizing the key role of the Presidents of Russia and Iran in this process

Viacheslav Volodin arrived in Volgograd to participate in the first meeting of the Commission on Cooperation between the State Duma and the Iranian Majlis

The session will be held today. The parliamentarians of the two countries are planning to work out mechanisms for cooperation at the level of the Сomission and relevant committees and outline a plan for work on the unification of national legislation within the framework of deepening bilateral cooperation

The delegation of Iranian Majlis laid flowers at the Eternal Flame on Mamayev Kurgan

The Iranian parliamentarians and members of the State Duma visited the historical and memorial complex “Heroes of the Stalingrad Battle” on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, and laid flowers at the Eternal Flame in the Pantheon of Military Glory and on the Grave of Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Chuikov

Viacheslav Volodin will hold the first session of the Commission on Cooperation between the State Duma and the Iranian Majlis

The session will take place today in Volgograd. Chairman of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin and Chairman of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ali Larijani will conduct the first session

The delegation of the Iranian Majlis arrived in Volgograd

Parliamentarians arrived to participate in the first session of the Commission on Cooperation between the State Duma and the Islamic Consultative Assembly of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which will be held tomorrow on September 6

The State Duma believes that the flow of refugees to Europe may intensify in case of new US attacks on Syria

This opinion was expressed by member of the Committee on International Affairs Elena Panina. The member of the Committee believes that threatening with new attacks on Syria the US wants to destabilize the situation on the world arena, and this can lead to a new flow of refugees to Europe, in particular, to Germany

The Committee on International Affairs believes that US military activity in Syria destabilizes the situation in the region

Member of the Committee on International Affairs Sergey Zhelezniak also said that the actions of the US military in Syria look like an attempt to provoke a new round of military conflict, to root in the country and create own US center of influence in it

Vasilii Piskarev: “Only together it's possible to struggle against the spread of the ideology of terrorism and extremism”

On September 3, Russia commemorates the Day of Solidarity in the Fight against Terrorism. This date entered the history of our country due to the tragic events in 2004 when terrorists took hostages at the Beslan Secondary School in North Ossetia. On this day the Russians throughout the country pay tribute to the victims of terrorist acts and law enforcement officers who died while performing their official duties

Leonid Slutskiy: Ukraine can only harm itself by ”unpleasant surprises“ for Russia

The Chairman of the Committee on International Affairs commented on the words of Ukrainian Permanent Representative to the UN Vladimir Yelchenko that Kiev is preparing anti-Russian initiatives concerning the Crimea and the Donbas

Viacheslav Volodin: the assassination of the head of the Donetsk People's Republic nullifies the meaning of the Minsk agreements

The Chairman of the State Duma commented on the information about the death of the head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko

Aleksei Chepa: “What the US is trying to do today is a threat to international trade relations“

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Aleksei Chepa commented on the first package of anti-Russian sanctions published by the United States

Sergei Gavrilov met the new head of the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate

Chairman of the Committee on the Development of Civil Society, Public and Religious Associations, President of the Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy discussed with Metropolitan Eugene the issues of building a dialogue between the Estonian authorities and the Church