Minsk: The Council of Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will meet on December 12 in Moscow, Russian permanent representative to the statuary and other CIS bodies Andrei Grozov said on Thursday.
“The Council of Heads of Government of the CIS countries will be held on December 12 in Moscow,” Grozov told reporters ahead of a meeting of the CIS permanent representatives in Minsk.
The CIS is a regional cooperation organization created after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Its current members include Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan as an associate member, and Moldova, which suspended its participation in meetings and moved to denounce the Convention on the Interparliamentary Assembly of CIS Member States in July 2023.
Russia assumed the chairmanship of the CIS on January 1, stating that it aims to raise the international status of the organisation, strengthen ties between the CIS and a number of regional associations, and jointly confront external challenges. UNI
