Moscow summed up the results of the programme New Generation

23 December 2015 the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) held a meeting in Moscow to analyze the implementation of the programme New Generation in 2015.

The meeting was attended by the heads of Rossotrudnichestvo and by partner organizations that were also involved in the programme implementation.

Pavel Zhuravlev, the Head of the Humanitarian Cooperation and Youth Policy Department, noted in his presentation that the programme was developing very fast. ‘More than 1,000 foreign young leaders, scientists, journalists visited Russia to participate in the programme. If compare to a previous period, in 2011, 200 people from 12 countries came to Russia, while in 2015 there are already more than 1,000 visitors from 90 countries.

The IPA CIS was represented by Margarita Safarova, the Executive Secretary of the YIPA CIS.

It bears reminding that the IPA CIS organized the 1st Youth Interparliamentary Forum of the CIS in 2014 as a part of the program and the session of the Youth Interparliamentary Assembly of the CIS in September 2015. The latter was attended by 75 young parliamentarians and youth leaders from 8 CIS countries. This effective cooperation is expected to go on in 2016: another youth session devoted to the 25th anniversary of the CIS is on schedule for 2016.