Meeting the head of the parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for security and cooperation in the European Union (OSCE PA) of Ilkka Kanerva with the head of the lower house of the Russian Parliament Sergei Naryshkin will take place on the last working day of the week in the capital of Russia, said the head of the State Duma on international Affairs Alexei Pushkov.
The meeting of the head of the OSCE PA and the speaker of the State Duma will be devoted to possible prospects of normalization of relations Organization and the Russian side.
"this week, on the last working day of the week, will visit Moscow the head of the OSCE PA Mr. Kanerva, who arrives for talks with the head of our delegation Sergei Naryshkin to discuss this situation and the normalization of relations between the OSCE PA and the Russian delegation ", - says Alexei Pushkov news Agency. At a press conference on Tuesday, the speaker of the state Duma expressed the hope that the forthcoming dialogues between by Ilkka Kanerva and Sergei Naryshkin will lead to the strengthening of positive trends that exist in the European parliamentary circles, and, for example, to the fact that they will promote the issue of lifting sanctions and restrictive measures with parliamentarians ". On the first day of the week it was made public interview Naryshkin, in which he linked the collapse of a United Europe with a deficit of morality." Happened what we have been intimidated our European partners ? their unscrupulous, destructive policy in Ukraine boomerang will fall upon the entire continent, " - said Naryshkin. July 9, the Secretary General of the OSCE parliamentary Assembly Spencer Oliver called the error the refusal of Finland's entry to the Russian deputies. On the same day Ilkka Kanerva has confirmed readiness to propose to the EU to soften the rules of using the sanctions list regarding parliamentarians. Remember, Finland has decided not to give the speaker of the state Duma of Russia Sergei Naryshkin permission to enter the country to participate in the session of the OSCE parliamentary Assembly in July, due to the fact that it is placed in the sanctions list of the EU. In the Russian Federation have reacted to it very negatively quickly. For example, July 1, the foreign Ministry said that the refusal of Finland entry Naryshkin harm bilateral relations. Later Finland on the official level did not agree with the allegations of a hostile attitude toward Russia.

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