DUSHANBE, July 1. /TASS/. Legislative support for the decisions made by the leaders of member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the bloc’s harmonized legislation will help bring the peoples of the countries within the organization closer together, Chairman of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly and State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said on Thursday.

The State Duma speaker made this statement at a meeting with Head of the upper house of Tajikistan’s parliament Rustami Emomali ahead of a session of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly Council.

"As we agreed upon earlier, we will discuss the issues that concern all the members of the countries within the organization and talk about the issues of harmonizing legislation," Volodin said.

The Russian politician said that he considered it important to address the issues of harmonizing national laws within the CSTO. "This is vitally important for us to implement these decisions in the national legislations of each country and do everything possible to ensure that the decisions at the level of the heads of state have legislative support. This will serve both as a good basis for solving many issues and bringing our countries and our peoples closer to each other," the head of the lower house of Russia’s parliament emphasized.

The session of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly Council. may also touch upon the issue of the anti-coronavirus fight," Volodin said.

"And each one considers it necessary to discuss it in order to elaborate joint steps to overcome the pandemic and provide assistance to each other," the chairman of the State Duma added.

For his part, the head of the upper house of Tajikistan’s parliament said that inter-parliamentary ties of Dushanbe and Moscow "are consistently progressing to a qualitatively new level." "I am confident that your visit will give a new impetus to developing the relations between our countries," Emomali said.

Speaking about bilateral interaction with Tajikistan, the State Duma speaker urged to look for new forms of cooperation "that would make it more effective."

"It would be right to discuss the issue of establishing a high-level commission," the chairman of the State Duma suggested. As part of such interaction, the relevant commitments of both nations’ parliaments could formulate the agenda of their work for addressing specific issues, he explained.