IPA CIS - Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States

07/12/2024 | Press release | Archived content

Chairs of Parliaments of Commonwealth Conducted Bilateral Meetings in St. Petersburg

Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Chairperson of the IPA CIS CouncilValentina Matvienko met Speaker of Milli Majlis of the Azerbaijan Republic Sahiba Gafarova. The meeting was conducted in the headquarters of the IPA CIS -the Tavricheskiy Palace, where on 12 of July the session of the IPA CIS was held.

Valentina Matvienkodiscussed perspectives of parliamentary cooperation in various formats with Speaker of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of BelarusNatalyaKochanova. Valentina Matvienkoand Chair of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan MaulenAshimbayev stressed the effectiveness of the dialogue on the MPs level.

The main topic of the meeting between Valentina Matvienko and Chair of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of UzbekistanTanzilaNarbaeva was strengthening parliamentary cooperation.

Moreover, the meeting between Chair of the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan MaulenAshimbayev and Chair of the Jogorku Kenesh of the Kyrgyz Republic Nurlanbek Shakiev was also held.

On 11-12 July, Chairs of the Commonwealth parliaments participated in X BRICS Parliamentary Forum. Plenary sessions in extended format within participation of Heads of legislative branches of the CIS were conducted in headquarters of the IPA CIS.