PACE’s new president Stella Kyriakides sent a letter to speakers of the Russian parliament’s lower and upper houses Vyacheslav Volodin and Valentina Matviyenko, where she confirmed she was ready to meet them soon to discuss the relations between Russia and PACE, TASS learned on sidelines of the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s assembly, which opens in St. Petersburg on Saturday.
"She (Kyriakides) thanks for the invitation to participate in the assembly, but says PACE is unable to send an official representative," the source said. She "hopes soon, whenever it is possible, to have a meeting with speakers of the Russian parliament’s houses to discuss the relations between the Russian parliament and PACE and calls this issue exclusively important," the source added.
The new president wished to Matviyenko and Volodin "successful assembly, thus expressing the desire for constructive contacts with the Russian side," the source said, TASS reports.
