Sargsyan is due to participate in the session of the Council of CIS heads of state to be held in Bishkek on Friday under Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev’s chairmanship.
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During the sessions the Heads of States will discuss the mutual cooperation of the CIS member states on political, economic, humanitarian, security provision sectors, more than a dozen issues related to combating new challenges and threats.
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was created in December 1991.
“We approached the 25th anniversary with basically the same intention – and this is the main result, in my opinion, – to preserve the CIS as a full-fledged worldwide organization”, Putin said in Bishkek.
Regular meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of State in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, decided that Russian Federation will chair the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) from January 1, 2017, Trend reports.
“All of them understand and support the need to keep and further develop the organization”. This means that the effort to adapt the CIS to the realities of today should be continued.
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“There were a lot of controversy about the CIS optimization, but I am glad that all countries could agree on a common point and already prepare documents to operate in an optimized mode”, he said. Sergei Lebedev added that he feels optimistic about the future of the organization.
