KOCHARIAN TO FLY TO TAJIKISTAN FOR CIS SUMMIT

ARMENPRESS
Oct 04 2007

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 4, ARMENPRESS: President Robert Kocharian is flying
October 5 to Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe to join counterparts from
other former Soviet republics for a recurrent summit of heads of the
Commonwealth of the Independent States (CIS).

Kocharian will also attend a meeting of the Collective Security
Treaty Organization (CSTO) Council and another meeting of heads of
the countries making the Eurasian Economic Community, also hosted
by Tajikistan.

Kocharian’s entourage will include defense minister Mikael Harutunian,
chief of the presidential staff and national security council secretary
Armen Gevorkian, other government officials and journalists.

Kocharian’s press office said CIS heads will focus on a CIS development
concept and a plan of actions designed to boost cooperation among
former Soviet nations. The CSTO Council meeting will focus on a set
of issues pertaining to the organization’s future operation.

The CIS heads will sign a number of documents, developed to boost
their political and military partnership.

The CIS was created in 1991 and unites most of the former Soviet
republic.

Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
and Armenia are now united in a military coalition – the Collective
Security Treaty Organization.

The same states except for Armenia are members of the Eurasian Economic
Community, or EurAsEC.