Delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus to the CSTO PA consists of 7 deputies from the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus and 4 deputies from the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus.
Plenipotentiary representative of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus: Viktor Kogut
Website of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus: http://house.gov.by/en/
Website of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus: http://www.sovrep.gov.by/ru/
Delegation of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the CSTO PA consists of 8 deputies from the Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan and 8 members of the Senate of the Parliament of Kazakhstan.
Plenipotentiary Representative of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, deputy Executive Secretary of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly: Viktor Rogalev
Delegation of the Supreme Council of the Kyrgyz Republic to the CSTO PA consists of 7 deputies.
Plenipotentiary Representative of the Supreme Council of the Kyrgyz Republic: Shabdanbek Alishev
Website of the Supreme Council of the Kyrgyz Republic: http://www.kenesh.kg/
Delegation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation to the CSTO PA consists of 10 deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation and 12 members of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.
Plenipotentiary representative of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation - deputy Executive Secretary of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly: Mikhail Krotov
Delegation of the Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Tajikistan to the CSTO PA consists of 6 deputies of the National Assembly of the Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Tajikistan and 6 deputies of the Assembly of Representatives of the Supreme Assembly of the Republic of Tajikistan.
Perhaps the warmest and brightest of all holidays, International Women’s Day on March 8 is celebrated today in all Member States of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
If we delve a little deeper into history, we will recall that this holiday originally was of quite bellicose and even somewhat militant nature: the first to celebrate Women’s Day were socialist women in the United States who fought for women’s equality.
Incidentally, until 1913, it was celebrated on the last Sunday of February.
The idea to make Women’s Day an international holiday belonged to the famous campaigner for the rights of working women, Clara Zetkin. In August 1910, at the Second International Conference of Working Women, she suggested establishing an international day of protest against the political powerlessness of working women, and making it an annual event. Female workers liked the idea, and it was supported. However, a specific date was not set.
This is why in 1911 the day of solidarity of women for equality was celebrated on March 19 in Austria-Hungary, Germany, Denmark and Switzerland.
In 1913, on March 2, it was held for the first time in Russia, in St Petersburg.
That day, about a thousand St Petersburg women gathered at the Kalashnikov grain exchange, where the ladies signed a petition demanding equal rights for women.
International Women’s Day began to be celebrated on March 8 in 1914. In Russia in the early years of Soviet power the holiday was called International Working Women’s Day, and in the late 1920s it became International Women’s Day.
Today International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8 in all CSTO states. Having lost much of its former fervour; today it is considered a day of spring, female beauty, tenderness, spiritual wisdom and attention to women, regardless of their status or age.
On this day we would like to wish all women, without exception, love, happiness, prosperity and, most importantly, peace.