Russia Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko announced that Russian­Armenian interparliamentary cooperation is at the highest level. According to her, the legislative bodies of the two countries coordinate their decisions and cooperate within such international parliamentary platforms as the CIS Inter­Parliamentary Assembly, the Parliamentary Assemblies of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC) and Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) as well as international parliamentary conferences. Matviyenko noted that effective activities in the framework of the inter­parliamentary cooperation commission between the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia and the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation contributed to strengthening of parliamentary cooperation between the two countries.

As it was reported earlier, the delegation of Russia Federation Council headed by Speaker Valentina Matviyenko paid a two­day official visit to Armenia on Nov. 2. Matviyenko will also meet with the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and Armenia PM Hovik Abrahamyan. The delegation of the upper chamber of the Russian Parliament will attend the opening of IV Russian­Armenian Interregional Forum “Russia. Armenia. Eurasian Economic Union.

New Prospects for Interregional Cooperation”. As Chairperson of the Council of the Federation Committee on the Federal Structure, Regional Policies, Local Self­Governance and Affairs of the North Dmitry Azarov told TASS on the day preceding the visit, Armenia is one of the key partners of Russia in the South Caucasus. Photo by TASS