HEADS OF CIS COUNTRIES SIGN TWO DOZENS OF DOCUMENTS

ARMENPRESS
Oct 10, 2008

BISHKEK, OCTOBER 10, ARMENPRESS: "Interesting discussions were held
in the session of the council of the heads of the CIS countries. As a
chairman of the Executive Committee of CIS I was glad that during it it
was spoken about the deepening of cooperation within CIS, improvement
of the establishment. Neither of speakers put the purposefulness of
further cooperation under doubt. It was noted for many times that with
joint efforts within the frameworks of CIS we will be able to overcome
the existing difficulties," the chairman of the Executive Body of CIS
Sergey Lebedev said at a press conference followed after the signing
ceremony of a number of documents by the heads of the CIS countries.

>From January 1, 2009 Moldova assumes the chairmanship of CIS. President
of Moldova Vladimir Voronin noted that he assumes the chairmanship with
great responsibility. The next session of the council of heads of the
CIS countries will take place in Kishinev in 2009 in October. After
the session of the council more than 20 documents have been signed
and particularly the most important one – the strategy of economic
development of CIS until 2020.

President of Kyrgyzstan told in the press conference that the
implementation of the points of the strategy will help to ensure the
development of integration processes, use the full potential of each
of the CIS member country in the economic sphere, expand the mutually
beneficial cooperation, create conditions for entering international
community.

On the second half of the day the session of the council of the
Eurasian Economic Association’s inter-state council took place with
participation of the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan. In this
organization Armenia has a status of an observer.