State Duma speaker will most likely attend PACE Presidential Council meeting in Paris
MOSCOW. Aug 8 (Interfax) - Russian State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin will most likely accept the invitation from Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Chairperson Anne Brasseur to attend a meeting of the PACE Presidential Committee.
"My possible meeting with the PACE chairperson is now being discussed. Literally two days ago, I received an invitation from Ms. Brasseur, chairperson of PACE, to take part in a session of the PACE Presidential Committee, which will be held in Paris at the beginning of September. I will most likely accept this invitation," Naryshkin told reporters on Friday.
"Concrete proposals concerning both further cooperation with PACE and measures to allay tensions in Europe" will be prepared in time for the Paris trip, he said.