The head of the OSCE PA Ilkka Kanerva to visit Ukraine and the Russian Federation for the organization of the work of the inter-parliamentary contact group, said Last news on Sunday on the phone the people's Deputy of the state Duma, the OSCE PA special representative for the fight against crime Nikolay Kovalev.

the conclusion about the creation of the inter-parliamentary contact group on Ukraine was adopted at the session of OSCE PA in June 2014 in Baku on the initiative of the speaker of the state Duma Sergei Naryshkin, but Since then it still does not work, because the Ukrainian delegation ignored the Decision.

"With Kanerva conversation took place. Two aspects - the continuation of cooperation and an attempt to build still, the interaction between the elected representatives of the parliaments of Ukraine and Russia, for example, this initiative was put forward Sergei Naryshkin. He (Kanerva) supported this initiative and requested to equip it with new arguments, new some facts in order to still get things off dead center, " said Kovalev.

"He is going (Kanerva) on a visit to Ukraine. Besides Going to visit not only Kyiv, but also Mariupol, Donetsk, Donbass and to visit Moscow in order to conduct dialogues

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