Participants at the council session approved the agenda of the 49th CIS IPA plenary meeting.
St Petersburg hosted a meeting of the Council of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Chair of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly and Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko moderated the meeting.
The heads of the following national parliamentary delegations to the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly took part in the event: Ogtay Asadov, Speaker of the Milli Majlis (National Assembly) of the Republic of Azerbaijan; Alen Simonyan, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia; Mikhail Myasnikovich, Speaker of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus; Dariga Nazarbayeva, Speaker of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Dastanbek Jumabekov, Speaker of the Jogorqu Kenes (Supreme Council) of the Kyrgyz Republic; Ion Lipciu, Deputy Secretary General of the IPA CIS Council and Plenipotentiary Envoy of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova to the IPA CIS; Shukurjon Zukhurov, Speaker of the Assembly of Representatives (Majlisi namoyandagon) of the Supreme Assembly (Majlisi Oli) of the Republic of Tajikistan; and Nigmatilla Yuldashev, Speaker of the Senate of the Supreme Assembly (Oliy Majlis) of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Valentina Matvienko noted the effective joint work at the Conference on Countering Terrorism that served as a broader continuation of the 2017 discussion when a similar conference was held together with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). “This year’s conference had many more organisers. In the conditions of the persisting terrorist threat, this confirms the fact that the IPA CIS venue remains in high demand for developing a common approach to counter this global evil,” the Federation Council Speaker pointed out. She also noted the conference’s large lineup and thanked members of the parliamentary delegations for their active involvement.
Participants at the event discussed the candidacy of the Chairperson of the IPA CIS Council. Valentina Matvienko was unanimously reelected to this post.
Dmitry Kobitsky was appointed Secretary General — Head of the IPA CIS Council Secretariat.
Those at the meeting approved the draft agenda of the 49th plenary meeting of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly.
Council members discussed the agenda of the 49th plenary meeting of the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly that was scheduled to be held on April 19.
Meeting participants discussed matters linked with the preparations for the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory, due to be celebrated in 2020. Deputy Chairman of the Permanent IPA CIS Commission on Political Issues and International Cooperation and Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs Konstantin Kosachev reported on this matter at the meeting.
According to the Senator, the schedule of the events has been drafted with due consideration for summed-up proposals, submitted to the parliaments of the CIS member states. It is necessary to accomplish many tasks, including those stipulating the patriotic education of children and young people, efforts to counter attempts to falsify the results of the war and to perpetuate the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland.
Council members summed up the results of the Interparliamentary Assembly’s 2018 activities and decided to draft a prospective plan for model law-making activities in the Commonwealth of Independent States for the next period.