CIS parliamentarians: 70th anniversary of Great Victory - symbol of our friendship

Veterans, residents of sieged Leningrad, parliamentarians of the CIS member states took part in the plenary session held in St. Petersburg.

It was noted that the 70 th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War is a great symbol of friendship, a sacred day for everyone who values freedom, humanism and justice. This is also a guarantee for development of multilateral cooperation in the new century.

The participants of the event emphasized the role of the inter-parliamentary structures and the Inter-parliamentary Assembly of the CIS in particular in keeping the memory of the feat of those heroes who fought in that war. Special attention was paid to development of legislation acts aimed at keeping the memory about the Great Patriotic War.

The veterans were awarded the medals "70 th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War" established by the CIS Head of State Council as the common award for the CIS veterans.