Matvienko was re-elected Chairman of the Council of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly

Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko has been re-elected Chairman of the Council of the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly. The decision was made unanimously on November 13 at a Council meeting in Dushanbe.

The Speaker of the upper house of the Parliament of Tajikistan, Rustam Emomali, speaking at the meeting, proposed to nominate Matvienko to the post of Chairman of the Council again, noting her "tremendous political experience" and significant contribution to the development of interparliamentary cooperation within the CIS.

"Over the years that Valentina Ivanovna [Matvienko] has been heading the Council of the IPA and the CIS, the Assembly has established itself as an authoritative international parliamentary platform," Emomali said.

The meeting participants supported his initiative, re-electing Matvienko unanimously. The Speaker of the Federation Council of Russia thanked her colleagues for their trust, stressing that the annual election procedure was always "exciting" for her, and assured that she would continue to work to strengthen interparliamentary cooperation and friendly ties between the CIS countries.

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