CIS INTERIOR MINISTERS MEET IN YEREVAN

Civil Georgia, Georgia
Sept 29 2005

Georgian Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili is participating in the
session of the Council of Interior Ministers of the Commonwealth of
Independent States (CIS) in Armenian capital Yerevan on September 29.

The issues of combating corruption and illegal migration top the
agenda of the session, that brought together the ministers from
Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia,
Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

In his opening speech Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of
Independent States (CIS) Vladimir Rushailo described the Council of
CIS Interior Ministers as one of the most effective bodies of the
Commonwealth, according to RIA Novosti.