The people's Deputy of the state Duma will take part in the meeting of the Bureau of the OSCE PA, in Copenhagen
A member of the Department of the state Duma on safety and counteraction to bribery, the former head of FSB Nikolay Kovalev, who is the special representative of the head of the parliamentary Assembly (PA) of the OSCE in the fight against crime, will participate in the meeting of the Bureau of the Assembly, which will determine the theme of the summer session.
the Bureau meeting will be held in Copenhagen from 26 to 28 April.
"This annual meeting of the Bureau. The senior members of the OSCE parliamentary Assembly sets the agenda for the next session. In this case the story is about the July meeting of the Assembly. I was invited as a special envoy of the head of the parliamentary Assembly on the battle against crime, " said Kovalev Last news .
according to his statement, at the current meeting resolved strategic issues: to discuss parliamentary Assembly, what decisions will be made provisionally determined position of the committees." That is, the future contours are drawn subsequent meetings, " said the people's Deputy. Kovalev explained that the topics for future sessions as long as unknown and will be determined during the meeting of the Bureau. However, in his vision, the Ukrainian question one way or another will rise.
first, state Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin said that the OSCE PA behaves more professionally and responsibly in relation to the Russian delegation to the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
PACE has deprived the Russian delegation's voting rights until April, thereby extending introduced last April of punishment because of the situation in Ukraine. Because of this, the delegation of the Russian Federation said about temporary suspension of work in the organization until the end of 2015. In the activities of the OSCE PA Russian MPs are actively involved.