Matviyenko: Presidents of Belarus and Russia give priority to national interests

The main priorities of the Presidents of Belarus and Russia are national interests, said Chairperson of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of Russia Valentina Matviyenko during a meeting with Chairman of the Council of the Republic Natalia Kochanova, as BelTA reports.

"We have talked a lot about the values of our interparliamentary assembly. One of such values is an opportunity for bilateral contacts, an opportunity to discuss bilateral relations and interparliamentary cooperation with certain countries. Everyone works very responsibly, seriously and proactively in commissions, other structures and formats. It is an opportunity to share experience with other parliaments," Valentina Matviyenko said.

According to Matviyenko, the steady line of the harmonization of our laws allows to create legal conditions to develop cooperation in all spheres. "As for the Belarusian-Russian relations, I can speak about them a lot. And thank God that they are actively developing to this extent today. All this is due to the will of the leaders of our states, their personal trusting relations, their common vision of the development of the Union State, the international situation and world politics in general. And the implementation of the 28 union programs that have been signed by the heads of state is the core of our integration, which will make it possible to develop our cooperation on a larger scale and more widely, to harmonize it in the interests of our countries and peoples. What distinguishes our leaders: their main priorities are national interests. These are the interests of people, the interests of economic development. And further construction of the Union State gives a big cumulative effect, multiplying our potential and possibilities and giving more powerful development," the Speaker of the Federation Council noted.

The meeting took place on the margins of the IPA CIS autumn session in Samarkand (Uzbekistan).