The Russian Federation thanked the MPs for protesting against penalties regarding parliamentarians
The Federation Council speaker, who heads the Russian delegation at the Assembly of the inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), thanked the governing Council of the organization for the adoption of the Declaration on the inadmissibility of visa sanctions against parliamentarians.
on Sunday before the Meeting, the IPU Council adopted the message on the inadmissibility of sanctions against parliamentarians attending international events. Meetings of the IPU in the future will not be confined to those countries which impose visa limits for MPs.
"I am sure that the practice of creating artificial barriers to inter-parliamentary communication no prospects. I thank the governing Council for support for the statement of the head of the IPU on this matter, " - said Matvienko, speaking at the meeting of the Assembly of the inter-Parliamentary Union.
in the event the IPU, which was held in late summer - early autumn in new York, the Russian delegation did not go, because the U.S. government gave the speaker of the Federation Council of the RF Valentina Matvienko "truncated visa" because of the punishment introduced with regard to parliamentarians of the Russian Federation in connection with the situation in Ukraine.