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Parlamenskaya newspaper
A key role in the fight against global terrorism needs to be played by national States. The Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko said from the rostrum of the Association of European Senates (AES) during visit to Bern.
The speaker urged his counterparts from Europe honest conversation
The program of the visit Matvienko in Switzerland was full of bilateral meetings: with speakers from France, Slovenia, Spain, Italy, and other European countries. Particularly long was the conversation with the new President of the Union of the cantons of Switzerland, Rafael Conte, the topics of which were the exchange of visits “friendship groups” and the establishment in Switzerland Suvorov center. “Switzerland takes the high road – we continue the dialogue, we hear each other’s arguments and appreciate the fact that the Russian-Swiss relations have not become a hostage of the complex relationships that develop in the world” – said the speaker of the chamber of regions.
Comte emphasized that the meeting of the parliamentarians of the two countries allow “to put on the table” issues that should not be ignored, and to solve. “Today, as never before, the necessary dialogue between the States – he is the best guarantor of harmonious development of the countries,” he said.
Key was the performance of Valentina Matvienko at the meeting of the Association of European Senates on the role of parliaments in combating terrorism in Europe. First of all she called global terrorism “the greatest danger hanging over humanity since the end of world war II”. To act against those who declared a brutal war of human civilization, we must work together, as it did at the time, the allies, but this readiness, according to Valentina Matvienko, the countries of Europe not observed. As there is still no understanding that with terrorists it is impossible to agree, and in order to win over them to push all differences to the background.
The Chairman of the Federation Council recalled that a year ago the President of Russia at the 70th session of the UN General Assembly urged to create a truly broad international coalition against terrorism.