MOSCOW, Sep 8 The world cannot be unipolar, this is what Russia and China demonstrate with their cooperation and friendship, said State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin following a meeting with Speaker of the PRC Parliament Li Zhanshu. «The world cannot be unipolar. And when we talk about developing relations, they should be built only on the principles of friendship, mutual respect, cooperation, which Russia and China,» the politician told reporters. 
18:56 dear friend» and expressed the hope that they would meet more often. According to the speaker of the State Duma, if the lower house of the Russian parliament held a plenary meeting today, Li Zhanshu would certainly be invited to speak during it. Volodin assessed the dialogue during the meeting as «open and confidential» and said that he had discussed the whole range of development issues with his Chinese counterpart relations between Russia and China. The Russian parliamentarian stressed the importance of contacts at the level of relevant committees of the State Duma and the PRC Parliament, at the level of friendship groups and in international organizations. «The result that the heads of our states demonstrate simply obliges us to follow those decisions within the parliamentary dimension that are achieved at the level of the leaders of our countries,» Volodin summed up. Li Zhanshu is on an official visit to the Russian Federation at the invitation of Volodin. The Chinese parliamentarian previously took part in the Eastern Economic Forum, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. On Friday, Li Zhanshu is scheduled to meet with the leaders of the Duma factions.
