Speaker of Russian parliament Sergei Naryshkin expressed his appreciation to the visit he conducted to Egypt recently, stressing that there is a possibility to increase cooperation between the two countries during the coming period. He added, in a statement published by Novosti News Agency, that the visit witnessed a positive and open dialogue with "our colleagues in the Egyptian parliament". "We discussed a number of major issues on the regional and international arena and the bilateral relations between the two countries with President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, while the priority was to the issues related to the international security," said the Russian official.