Zugura Rakhmatullina shared experience of organizing multicultural life in Bashkortostan

UFA, 5 December 2018. /Bashinform News Agency/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/. The State Duma Deputy, Chairman of the Assembly of Peoples of Bashkortostan Zugura Rakhmatullina, as part of the official delegation of the State Duma, took part in the 11th plenary session of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA), which brings together 42 member states and 16 observer countries.

Russian parliamentarians took an active part in discussing topical issues during plenary sessions and meetings of standing committees, made a number of principal initiatives, in particular on “green financing” of environmental projects aimed at ensuring the environmental well-being of the countries of the region, suggested organizational and financial amendments to the APA charter, included a clause on the creation of free trade space in the Asian region and the inadmissibility of one-sided economic sanctions introduction in the final Istanbul Declaration.

It was also decided to hold a meeting of one of the key APA committees - the Standing Committee on Economic and Sustainable Development - in Russia next year. Zugura Rakhmatullina participated in the meeting of women parliamentarians at the APA Standing Committee on Social and Cultural Issues.

In the context of the problems discussed, Zugura Rakhmatullina shared the experience of preserving ethnic and cultural diversity in multinational Russia and Bashkortostan. The parliamentarian spoke about the Bashkortostan model of multicultural life, the national education system in the republic, when teaching is organized in six languages at schools, and 14 native languages are studied as separate subjects.

“Bashkortostan, where the culture and language of each nationality are protected, is a kind of paradigm for organizing multicultural life in Russia as a whole. In this interconnected world, respectful attitude for each culture and language, equal communication between nations is a basis for the prosperity not only of someone’s own republic and country but for peace in the Asian region as a whole” the parliamentarian stated.