CHISINAU HOSTS SUMMIT OF CIS FOREIGN MINISTERS

armradio.am
08.10.2009 14:14

The heads of diplomacies of all the 11 member states of the
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) are in Chisinau today to
participate in the summit of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers in
the afternoon.

The summit’s agenda covers 20 up-to-date issues from various sectors. A
special subject is Georgia’s further cooperation with the commonwealth,
after it gave in its CIS membership on 18 August 2009.

On 9 October, Chisinau will host the summit of CIS heads of states,
which is expected to be attended by seven out of 11 CIS presidents. The
other countries will be represented by prime ministers. Moldova
holds the CIS chairmanship this year and is to hand it to the Russian
Federation.

The Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan Serzh Sargsyan and
Ilham Aliyev are scheduled to meet on the margins of the CIS
summit. Press-secretary of the Russian President Natalya Timakova told
reporters that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will hold trilateral
meeting with Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents during the visit
to Moldova.