Anatoly Vyborny: Parliamentary diplomacy plays an important role in creating a common legal space and solving other topical issues on the international agenda.

Anatoly Vyborny, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO PA), spoke at the parliamentary hearings titled The Role of Parliamentary Diplomacy in Addressing Topical Issues on the International Agenda, organized by the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia.
The hearings were attended by representatives of the parliaments of the CSTO PA Member States: the Republic of Belarus, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Serbia – an observer in the CSTO PA, as well as representatives of the Russian Foreign Ministry, expert community of the CSTO Member States and leading political scientists.
They discussed the importance of inter-parliamentary cooperation, which allows to maintain a dialogue between the legislative bodies and various law-enforcement structures to address topical issues of world politics, as well as issues related to the observance of existing norms of international law.
Anatoly Vyborny told the attendees that the Russian Federation does not question the conceptual importance of the parliamentary diplomacy; on the contrary, it is especially emphasized by the leaders of the country.
“It is important to note that implementation of parliamentary diplomacy is possible only on the basis of the main directions of foreign policy developed by the President of the Russian Federation in accordance with the Constitution and federal laws.
CSTO PA is one of the most powerful institutions of parliamentary diplomacy that not only coordinates and consolidates efforts in countering external threats and combating international terrorism, extremism, illegal migration and drug trafficking, but also makes it possible to offer model recommendations to the CSTO Member States that ensure the approximation of national legislations in the legal framework of the Organization’s Member States.
Model legislation is the most powerful tool for harmonizing and unifying the normative legal acts of States. Most of the CSTO model acts have been developed by experts of leading higher education institutions and academic organizations (including ministerial ones: Federal Security Service, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Ministry of Emergency Situations) of CSTO M​