Saturday 8 December 2018
State Duma Chairman in Tehran for Anti-Terror Forum
TEHRAN (Ruptly) — Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin visited Tehran on Saturday to take part in the second conference on terrorism along with top officials from Afghanistan, Iran, China and Turkey.
Footage shows the meeting between Volodin and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Volodin called on countries to create a combined list of terrorist organisations, and noted that it is highly important to cooperate to prevent the spreading of terrorist ideology.
During the conference, Volodin reportedly said that the countries involved need to have a common understanding of terrorism in order to make up the combined list of terrorist organisations, and urged the deprivation of their financial base, which consists of drug trafficking and international crime.