Mediamax news agency, Armenia
Aug 13 2008

No plans to withdraw from CIS – Armenian official

Yerevan, 13 August: Membership of the CIS [Commonwealth of Independent
States] is "Armenia’s long-term political choice" and "the issue of
withdrawing from the Commonwealth cannot be on the republic’s foreign
policy agenda", the Armenian deputy foreign minister, Gegham
Garibjanyan, has said.

Garibjanyan said that "we have been implementing effective programmes
within the framework of the CIS over the past years, and a plan for
the CIS’s further development was approved last year".

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili announced on 12 August that his
country would withdraw from the CIS.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress