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The Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko explained its rejection of his visit to the United States.
«The US State Department has issued me a visa only for a meeting with UN Secretary General by preventing thus my participation in the conference speakers and ignored the appeal the Chairman of the Interparliamentary Union to issue a visa, “- said Matvienko journalists.
Visa under US sanctions Matvienko was issued on Wednesday. “These flawed visa conditions, I can not accept, so the participation of the Russian delegation to the World Conference of Speakers is not possible”, – she said. The decision of the US authorities, according to her, is a flagrant violation of international law, the US commitment to the international community, calls into question the usefulness of international events in the United States and therefore unacceptable.
The Chairman of the Federation Council in early June was invited take part in the 4th World Conference of Speakers of Parliament, which will be held from August 31 to September 2 at the UN headquarters in New York as well as in the 10 th meeting of women speakers. It was also planned a meeting with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
The responsibility for the ‘no Russian delegation Matvienko laid on the United States, which, she said, “Let the free exchange of views.” Sanctions against MPs she called “savagery”. Earlier adoption of these sanctions on the various platforms condemned the chairman of the State Duma Sergei Naryshkin, the refusal of the Finnish authorities to issue him a visa to attend the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and the actions against the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
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The Chairman of the International Committee of the Federation Council, Konstantin Kosachev, commenting on Facebook visa conflict, described as “a serious problem” intervention of a number of countries “in the political dialogue of authorized electorate MPs. ” He recalled that earlier in Finland in the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly was not allowed Sergei Naryshkin. As a result of “unfortunate experience of the Helsinki and New York,” policymakers need to take two decisions suggests Kosachev: condemn the use of unilateral sanctions in principle, as contrary to international law and to agree not to hold international events in the countries introducing such sanctions are not coordinated with the UN. According to Kosachev, it is appropriate to adopt such resolutions in the opening in the end of September regular session of the UN General Assembly and the next Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, to be held in mid-October in Geneva. The Russian delegation will travel to Geneva, said Kosachev, at full strength, and headed by the chairman of the Federation Council.
Take a separate statement on the situation with visiting chairman of the US Council of the Federation is unlikely to be, said RBC deputy chairman of the parliament’s upper chamber, Senator Ilyas Umakhanov: “We will meet the next time only on 30 September, and I think in that sense, a lot of water will flow away. However, it is possible that some of our colleagues in the Duma and the Federation Council will take the initiative to make a proposal. ” Umahanov expects that without attention to the situation with a visit Matvienko not leave himself the Interparliamentary Union. According to him, the union issued a statement that in 2000 the US authorities denied a visa to the President of Parliament of Yugoslavia and Cuba.
Proposal for a resolution to the UN General Assembly, according to Umahanova, requires serious consideration, but the question itself justified, as the United States violate its commitments of 1947. The Russian side is ready to initiate discussions on the proposal on the inadmissibility of unilateral sanctions against the parliamentarians at the IPU conference in Geneva, said the deputy chairman of the Federation Council.
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