The delegation of Israeli ruling party Kadima visited Moscow past week to meet with counterparts from United Russia and agree on cooperation.
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United Russia Attracted to Elections in Israel
The delegation of Israeli ruling party Kadima visited Moscow past week to meet with counterparts from United Russia and agree on cooperation. The parties will open representation offices in Tel-Aviv and Moscow to begin with.
The delegation of Kadima that visited Moscow past week wasn’t numerous. It consisted of just two persons – the party treasurer Yitzhak Hadad and Neda Chuzhaya, who stands for the Russian-language staff of the candidate to Kadima’s leadership Tzipi Livni.
It was the Israeli party that initiated the close-up, Chuzhaya said in the interview with RTVI, specifying that, all difference notwithstanding, Kadima and United Russia exert influence on political and economic situation in their countries, stick to the center policy and avoid extremity.
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is expected to lead Kadima and head the cabinet already in September and she obviously needs votes of the Russian-speaking residents of Israel for future parliamentary elections.
“We traditionally work with center parties,” said Andrei Klimov of United Russia, who is the deputy chairman of the State Duma Foreign Committee. “It doesn’t matter whether it is the ruling or not ruling one.”
In Moscow, the Israeli canvassed the parties’ cooperation with United Russia’s Vladimir Pligin, who heads the State Duma Committee for Constitutional Laws, and political strategist Gleb Pavlovsky. Spokesmen of Kadima and United Russia will next meet in Israel in October. Meanwhile, they will look for the premises to launch representation offices in Tel-Aviv and in Moscow.
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All the Article in Russian as of Aug. 26, 2008
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