ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Sept 29 2007
CIS cannot exist without united political, economic basis
YEREVAN, September 29. /ARKA/. The Commonwealth of Independent States
(CIS) cannot exist without a united political and economic basis,
reporter of `Ekho Moskvi’ radio Vitaly Dimarsky said at the
conference
`Commonality of CIS information field: vision and reality’.
`The CIS can be considered an attempt to establish a united political
space and collective security zone, but all this cannot exist on its
own, without political and economic fundament,’ he said.
`Everyone knows that the CIS has played its positive role in the
civilized divorce of the former Soviet republics, but the list of
achievements of this organization has not gone further,’ he said
adding that this structure resemblances today `an old suitcase
without handle – it is a pity to throw it away and it is hard to
carry it’.
According to the journalist, the responsibility for this situation is
with the political leadership of all the countries and first of all
with Russia.
`Russia is the main responsible for the development of a sort of
policy within the post-Soviet space, which looks quite indistinct
today,’ Dimarskiy said. N.V. -0–