MOSCOW, March 13. /TASS/. Delegations from 37 African countries will take part in the Second Russia-Africa international parliamentary conference due to be held in Moscow on March 19-20, speaker of Russia’s State Duma, or lower house of the parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin said on Monday.

"Delegations from 37 countries of the African continent will take part in the conference," the Duma press service quoted him as saying. "Bilateral meetings with the leader of the delegations from the member countries of the Russian-Africa conference will begin from March 16".