Russian delegates to Parliamentary Assembly of Union State of Belarus, Russia approved
09:00, 27 October
After the latest elections of the ninth-convocation members of the lower house of the Russian parliament the State Duma has picked a new delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, the assembly’s press service told BelTA.
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The press service noted: “In accordance with the rules of procedure of the Parliamentary Assembly the term of office of a member of the Parliamentary Assembly is counted from the date on which the chamber of the parliament of a participating state makes the decision to delegate that member. The delegated representatives have been included in commissions of the Parliamentary Assembly. At the next session of the Parliamentary Assembly its chair and one of their deputies will be elected, and the chairpersons of the respective commissions of the Parliamentary Assembly elected by the commissions will be approved.”
Among the well-known Russian MPs the State Duma’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly includes Vyacheslav Volodin, Ivan Melnikov, Nikolai Valuev, Svetlana Savitskaya, Leonid Kalashnikov, Artem Turov, Viktor Vodolatsky, Anatoly Lokot, Alexander Fetisov, and other ones.
The Parliamentary Assembly consists of delegations formed by the Council of the Republic and the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus and by the Federation Council and the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation respectively. The parliamentary delegations include an equal number of representatives: 36 from the parliaments of each participating state. The procedure for delegating representatives to the Parliamentary Assembly and recalling them as well as the term of their office are determined by the chambers of the national parliaments independently.
