MINSK, 11 March (BelTA) – The Union State Parliamentary Assembly will prepare an address to the parliaments of the CIS member states in connection with the 65th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, Nina Mazai, Chairwoman of the Council of the Republic’s permanent commission for international affairs and national security, said at a session of a commission in Minsk on 11 March.
The participants of the session will recommend the Council of the Parliamentary Assembly to address the parliaments of the CIS states on behalf of the whole Union State Parliamentary Assembly. “In the present conditions, when some countries pull down historical monuments and try to revise history and downplay the role of the real heroes and winners, we need to make a statement condemning such acts and make this statement convincing. If all the Union State MPs sign the address, it will have a greater impact on the public, than if it were signed only by the Council of the Parliamentary Assembly,” Deputy Chairman of the Commission on International Policy Affairs Ivan Savvidi said.
The parliamentarians of Belarus and Russia discussed some other aspects of the interparliamentary cooperation, like the commission’s suggestion that the Parliamentary Assembly should submit an application to the CSTO PA to get an observer status and to establish closer ties with the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IPAO). The both initiatives were upheld by the MPs and the relevant documents were sent to these organizations.
Apart from that, the MPs decided to optimize the number of permanent observers at the Union State Parliamentary Assembly. Moldova is going to withdraw, while the Serbian parliament should confirm its intention to preserve the status after the collapse of Yugoslavia.
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