She said they discussed the Duma law-making plans for 2004. The American ambassador was very much interested in the fate of the law On the Meetings and Demonstrations, Sliska said.
"According to the ambassador, the discussion of the law has evoked great response in the West", Sliska said.
She told the ambassador that the law will be adopted in second reading in May and its "concept will be greatly changed".
At the meeting they also discussed results of the past parliamentary elections in Russia. In Vershbow's opinion, representatives of the right - the Union of Right Forces (SPS) and Yabloko - were given little air time during the elections. At the same time, he noted with satisfaction that Yelena Mizulina and Vladimir Lukin of Yabloko have got key posts, Sliska said.
Lukin is the ombudsman in the Russian Federation and Mizulina of the State Duma spokesman in the Constitutional Court.
