EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARIANS DISCUSS SITUATION ON CONTINENT
By Boris Vlasov

PSKOV, August 29

ITAR-TASS News Agency
TASS
August 29, 2005 Monday 12:46 PM Eastern Time

European parliamentarians gathered in Pskov on Monday for a seminar,
which is devoted to the formation of a new Europe.

Federation Council Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Mikhail Margelov
told Itar-Tass Russian parliamentarians discussed the events in Europe.

“Russia’s membership in the Council of Europe is needed because it
is a European country that allows us to avoid isolation, which will
eliminate our democratic achievements and pose a threat to Russia’s
path on liberal democracy,” Margelov said.

The seminar involves “European democrats” from Britain, France,
Italy, Greece, Israel, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Turkey, Armenia
and Azerbaijan.