Russia will not work with international organizations with a Russophobic position, said Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Pyotr Tolstoy.
“Those organizations that have made confrontation with Russia their goal will cease to exist for Russia“, Tolstoy told TASS when asked which organizations membership may cease to be relevant for Russia.
He noted that the Russian Federation participates and works in international organizations, including interparliamentary associations, but no longer participates in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
“All this is because the organization has taken a Russophobic position and is perceived as a trial of Russia“, Tolstoy stressed, “Russia will not work in such organizations; we will destroy them“.
Earlier, Tolstoy called for a thorough investigation of the activities of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Russia by at least temporarily suspending its membership in it or, "better yet, saying goodbye completely".
Russia is always ready for dialogue with American parliamentarians, but the moment has not yet come - it is necessary to converge positions in a common vision of the situation, Tolstoy said.
He noted that American parliamentarians are concerned primarily with the problems of the United States, while Russia is concerned with the problems of its voters. "I think that when some kind of common vision is created, then we will meet," said the Deputy Speaker of the State Duma.
He recalled that "after Crimea became part of Russia," Russian parliamentarians met with American congressmen and senators at an OSCE event in Vienna.
"Then we discussed a number of things in the field of interparliamentary cooperation. There is something to talk about, but the time has not come yet. I think everything is ahead," he concluded.