Bilateral cooperation and international issues were discussed.

The speakers of Russian and Israeli parliaments, Valentina Matviyenko and Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, held a videoconference on the release of the film Sobibor.

The parties agreed to continue high-level strategic parliamentary dialogue provided for by the Memorandum on Cooperation signed in Moscow in February 2017, Konstantin Kosachev said.

Russian and French MPs presented a report in Paris on the current state and prospects of the two countries’ relations.

Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko proposed instructing the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs to draft a White Book on violations of international law, human rights and freedom of expression in Ukraine.

The meeting was held as part of the Chairperson of the Council of the Federation official visit to Serbia/

Valentina Matvienko suggested considering a proposal to the UN and other international organisations that memorials to those who fought against Nazism be recognised as a World War Two Global Memorial and a register of such monuments be compiled.

Several documents were adopted at the International Parliamentary Forum in St. Petersburg

Russian legislators met with members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe