Naryshkin will participate in the group meeting of the OSCE PA in Ukraine
The state Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin has agreed to participate in the work of the inter-parliamentary group Ukraine in early October in Geneva (Switzerland), about this He said on the first day of the weekend in an interview to Russian news agencies.
first it was announced that Naryshkin has invited the head of the OSCE parliamentary Assembly Ilkka of Kanerva to participate in the work of this group.
Answering the question, did He consent to the invitation, Naryshkin said: " Yes. How could I not give consent, if I was the author of the proposal. When it was adopted by the OSCE PA, Mr. Kanerva approached me with the initiative: am I ready to lead the Russian part of the working group. I said: of course ".
Inter-parliamentary Group was established on the initiative of Russia at the session of the OSCE PA in Baku in June of the current year. The group has been created to de-escalate and help Ukraine out of the fall. Group meeting expected to take place on the margins of the autumn session of the OSCE parliamentary Assembly will be attended by the leadership of the parliaments of several countries, now the organizers (OSCE PA) lead the coordination of the participants, the press service of the state Duma.
Naryshkin said that until not know who will be included in the group from other countries, and among them, from the Ukraine, but, as far as he knows, Kanerva appealed to the leaders of the parliaments of these States to participate in the work. He believes that the group will be presented or the speakers, or on behalf of the person with the authority and who is in the structure of the parliaments high position.
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