Speaker of the State Duma, Sergei Naryshkin, will pay official visit to Azerbaijan to discuss with the leadership of the country the development of inter-parliamentary relations, according to the press service of the parliament.
During the visit, which will be held on July 7-9, Naryshkin is to have meetings with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, President of the Parliament Oktay Asadov, the head of the Presidential Administration, Ramiz Mehdiyev. Special attention will be paid to the development of interparliamentary relations between Azerbaijan and Russia, said the spokesman.
The speaker intends to visit Heydar Aliyev Foundation, to speak to students at Baku Slavic University, as well as to present diplomas to the graduates of the Moscow branch of the Lomonosov State University in Baku.
On the eve of the visit of the Speaker of the State Duma, on July 6, a joint meeting of the Duma Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots and the Committee on Foreign Relations and Inter-parliamentary Relations of the Parliament of Azerbaijan,will be held in Baku. The deputies discussed the role of the parliaments of Russia and Azerbaijan in resolution of topical issues of bilateral cooperation and European politics.
According to the journalists of the Committee for CIS Affairs, Leonid Slutsky, the issue of the Eurasian Economic Union was one of the issues discussed at the first joint meeting of the committee in Baku. He is convinced that Azerbaijan’s joning the EEC, would be "extremely serious step" for this project.
"We know that Azerbaijan pays great attention to the Eurasian project. Azerbaijan’s joinng it would be a very serious step for a single economic space and the EEU," said Slutsky. -03D-
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