The senators summed up the results of their participation in the winter session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.
The Russian senators who served as members of a delegation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation summed up the results of their participation in the winter session of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly in Vienna.
Vladimir Dzhabarov headed the Federation Council section of the delegation that also included Grigory Karasin and Vladimir Chizhov.
Following their work, Vladimir Dzhabarov noted that tough statements by certain Western MPs showed their complete reluctance and lack of readiness to conduct respectful and equitable dialogue.
“Any discussion which is impossible to have today should still be conducted. We will inform our colleagues from foreign countries about Russia’s position using other methods. This is our job as MPs,” Vladimir Dzhabarov said.
“We were shocked by the unacceptable language of threats during the session. Russia is a great power, and we will staunchly defend our position. Russia is absolutely right to fight for its strategic security and that of the entire Eurasian region,” Grigory Karasin said.
According to Russian senators, the delegation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and the delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus submitted a joint statement to the Secretariat of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. The document notes that the collective West strives, in glaring contradiction to the original tasks of the OSCE as a platform for equitable interparliamentary dialogue, to monopolise it for promoting a geopolitically biased view of the origin of the Ukrainian tragedy and its development.
“Russia and Belarus consistently advocate pragmatic interaction with all states on the basis of mutual consideration of interests and in line with the principle of equal and indivisible security,” the document notes.