V.Popov: Year by year Parliamentary Assembly is getting more and more important as the consulting and advisory body of the Union State

In an interview with the daily “Soyuznoe Veche”, Vladimir Popov, First Deputy Chairman of Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State, Chairman of the House of Representatives at the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, stated that year by year Parliamentary Assembly is getting more and more important as the consulting and advisory body of the Union State.

In an interview with the daily “Soyuznoe Veche”, Vladimir Popov, First Deputy Chairman of Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State, Chairman of the House of Representatives at the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, stated that year by year Parliamentary Assembly is getting more and more important as the consulting and advisory body of the Union State.

On Parliamentary Assembly deputies’ initiative the budget of the Union State now has a reserve for a number of new Union programmes that are planned to be approved this year. Among them are aerospace, defence and high tech projects.

According to V.Popov, “all this should result in higher competitiveness of Russian and Belarusian goods at the world market”.

At the same time the parliamentarian stressed that the deputies are planning to take control of expenditures so as to make every ruble work for the benefit of the Union State.

Assessing the existing legal framework of Belarusian-Russian integration V.Popov noted that the countries had attained unified standards of civil, economy, bank and social legislations. For instance, National Acts of Natural Monopolies, Exchange Control, Governmental Registration of Real Estate, Protection of Consumers and so on have been unified. Moreover, the procedure of our countries’ entry into WTO has been coordinated. We have gained wide experience in standardized laws concerning labour protection, population employment, investment activity and other spheres of life. “Yet we have a lot to undertake in order to form a modern regulatory basis for integration continuation and coordinate the procedures of bilateral agreements’ ratification,” stressed the parliamentarian.

Under his words, on the whole “the statements of the Presidents of Belarus and Russia by results of the meeting of the Supreme State Council in Minsk, signed intergovernmental documents, legislative groundwork of parliamentarians as well as unwavering aiming of peoples and political elite of the two countries for closer relations between Belarus and Russia give hope that Union formation will be actively developed”.