Meeting of the Council of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

September 13, 1999

Presiding: SELEZNEV G.N.

SELEZNEV G.N.
Hello, dear colleagues!
Our Press Service requests that we allow cameras in for two minutes for protocol filming. Any objections? Please, Viktor Ivanovich, let them come in then.
(Protocol filming is underway)
Dear colleagues! Today is a day of mourning in Russia. Let us also begin our meeting by honoring the memory of all those who died in Dagestan and Moscow.
(A minute of silence)
Please, be seated.
As you can see, the agenda for our first Council of this session is enormous. But I think we need to exchange views now regarding tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. It seems we will have to make certain adjustments to the previously proposed Rules of Procedure. Therefore, you see that the first day mainly provides for the consideration of the legislative program for this session tomorrow.
But I think we will now exchange views on what adjustments to make, and how to structure tomorrow's meeting of the State Duma in general. It will be necessary, of course, to hear the issue of the situation in connection with the events in Dagestan and the terrorist attacks in Moscow. We will need to decide on the timing. The Chairman of the Government will only appear tomorrow at two o'clock. He has flown out, but it's a day's journey from there and an eight-hour time difference. I spoke with his secretariat; they said he is being met tomorrow at two.
Therefore, let us now exchange views. Perhaps we —