Russia Seeks to Expand Parliamentary Cooperation With Mozambique, Council Speaker Says

Valentina Matviyenko arrived in Brazil to officially represent Russia at the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as the President of the BRICS member country.

Russia seeks to expand parliamentary cooperation with Mozambique, according to Valentina Matviyenko, speaker of the Federation Council, the upper house of Russia’s parliament.

The statement was made during her meeting with Esperança Bias, President of the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique, in Brazil. Matviyenko reminded that Bias was officially invited to Russia in 2023. The Russian legislator expressed hope that her Mozambican counterpart would make such a visit.

"During this visit, we could sign a plan of specific measures of inter-parliamentary cooperation, a kind of road map for the next two years. If you support this, we could start working on it," Matviyenko said.

She was the head of the Russian delegation that was in Mozambique from May 30 to June 1, 2022, meeting with President Filipe Nyusi, Prime Minister Adriano Maleiane as well as Esperança Bias. After the visit, Matviyenko declared that the sides had agreed on accelerating work to expand the legal framework of interstate relations and signed an agreement to deepen parliamentary ties.

Matviyenko noted that she and her colleagues remain very impressed by their visit to the African country and the warm welcome they enjoyed.

"And of course, we attach great importance to the agreement on inter-parliamentary cooperation signed with you. We believe that this is such an important step in strengthening and expanding our parliamentary cooperation," she added.