Bilateral cooperation and international issues were discussed.

The speakers of Russian and Israeli parliaments, Valentina Matviyenko and Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, held a videoconference on the release of the film Sobibor.

The parties agreed to continue high-level strategic parliamentary dialogue provided for by the Memorandum on Cooperation signed in Moscow in February 2017, Konstantin Kosachev said.

Russian and French MPs presented a report in Paris on the current state and prospects of the two countries’ relations.

Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko proposed instructing the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs to draft a White Book on violations of international law, human rights and freedom of expression in Ukraine.

Valentina Matvienko suggested considering a proposal to the UN and other international organisations that memorials to those who fought against Nazism be recognised as a World War Two Global Memorial and a register of such monuments be compiled.

The meeting was held as part of the Chairperson of the Council of the Federation official visit to Serbia/

Several documents were adopted at the International Parliamentary Forum in St. Petersburg

Russian legislators met with members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe