🌐 Diplomacy that excludes interference: the «Parliamentarians for Peace» conference brought the continents together

On June 29, the IV International Conference «Parliamentarians for Peace»was held, organized by the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and the Central American Parliament PARLACEN.

Participants discussed the role of parliamentary diplomacy in strengthening international dialogue, protecting state sovereignty, and shaping a multipolar world order.

The discussion focused on:

🔵Leonid Slutsky, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, noted that the formation of a multipolar world has reached a point of no return. He emphasized the importance of developing cooperation between Russia and Latin America in business, education, and science, as well as the need to establish independent election observation institutions.

🔵 Victor Hugo Cifuentes Delgado, member of the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala, stated that parliamentary diplomacy should serve as a tool to counter inequality and external interference in the internal affairs of states.

🔵 David Alejandro Toro Ramírez, member of the House of Representatives of the Congress of Colombia and member of the governing council of the International Association of Political and Electoral Expertise, stressed the importance of international election observation and the inadmissibility of external interference in electoral processes.

🔵 Juan Dionicio Rodríguez Restituyo, Deputy Minister of Justice of the Dominican Republic, spoke in favor of developing multilateral parliamentary diplomacy as a mechanism for preventing international crises.

🔵 Julia Argentina Perié, former member of the MERCOSUR Parliament, called for the consolidation of international efforts and a more active stance by parliamentarians amid growing global tensions.

The conference became a platform for discussing how parliamentary dialogue can contribute to strengthening peace, sovereign equality of states, and fair international cooperation.