Inter-Parliamentary Dialogue: Added Value or Merely a Substitute for Traditional Diplomacy?

... human rights and fundamental freedoms. The goals of both Assemblies are in the best possible way consistent with the mission of parliamentary diplomacy if it is conceived in terms of strengthening trust and mutual understanding between nation-states. It ... ... “safeguards of order” and its “violators” simply change their places, and the discussion is reduced to an exchange of mutual accusations. The goals of inter-parliamentary platforms are undermined. The assemblies find themselves in crisis, dialogue does not ...