The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Statement in connection with the International Day of Parliamentarism
The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, on the eve of the International Day of Parliamentarism celebrated annually on 30 June in accordance with United Nations General Assembly resolution A/Res/72/278 adopted on 22 May 2018, is calling on international parliamentary organizations and parliaments of the world to work together towards strengthening peaceful and mutually beneficial relations among peoples and nations.
Senators of the Russian Federation note that shaping a new, more just multipolar world order is an objective process. Attempts by the collective West to impose on the international community a unipolar world order based on the self-interested diktat of Washington and a group of its satellites are expectedly failing. In these conditions, parliamentary diplomacy becomes increasingly important in establishing a constructive dialogue among nations.
The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation emphasizes that the Inter-Parliamentary Union has a special role to play in making the joint work of legislators from different countries more effective, especially on countering new challenges and threats faced by humanity.
The senators of the Russian Federation are developing productive cooperation with colleagues from other countries within the Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia, Asian Parliamentary Assembly and Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum.
The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation strongly condemns the openly destructive attempts of the countries of the collective West to block the work of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE PA).
The senators of the Russian Federation proceed from the need for interaction within the OSCE PA, Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation and Interparliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy to be returned to strict adherence to the principles of equality of legislators and giving up the creation of artificial obstacles in the work of parliamentary delegations.
The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation notes the importance of further developing direct contacts with the Arab Parliament, Parliament of the Latin American and Caribbean States, Parliament of the South American Common Market, Central American Parliament, as well as with the Arab Inter‑Parliamentary Union, African Parliamentary Union, Pan‑African Parliament, Parliamentary Union of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Member States, and Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
The senators of the Russian Federation express hope that during the upcoming 10th BRICS Parliamentary Forum in St. Petersburg in July 2024, legislators from the BRICS member countries meeting in an expanded format for the first time, will contribute to a more efficient and democratic international relations system, preventing unilateral restrictive measures against sovereign states, and strengthening ties with developing countries and their integration associations.
The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation congratulates fellow parliamentarians on the International Day of Parliamentarism, calling for joint efforts aimed to strengthen cooperation between parliaments of the world, prevent unilateral sanctions against legislators, and promote the goals and principles of the United Nations Charter, as well as the generally recognized norms of international law.