The head of the State Duma Committee for CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Ties with Compatriots, Leonid Slutsky, has not ruled out a resumption of the inter-parliamentary ties between Russia and Ukraine after the latter holds a presidential election on May 25.
“If the situation stabilizes after the election, we will need to
think about the format of our inter-parliamentary cooperation and how to
use this format for positive feedback to the situation in Ukraine,”
Slutsky told the committee on Thursday.
The situation in Ukraine is currently uneasy, but constructive forces
still remain in Verkhovna Rada which “retains a reserve of legitimacy,”
he said.
“I am certain we shall be able to find a practical mechanism that
will benefit our compatriots, the Russian world and the
inter-parliamentary relations which have now been frozen in a certain
way,” Slutksy said.
