In St. Petersburg today will be an informal meeting of the leaders of the CIS countries. The heads of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan will arrive at the summit. According to experts, the most important topics in the agenda of negotiations may be safety and military cooperation, migration and economic partnership. In addition, analysts believe that the main goal of the meeting is to sum up the results of the outgoing year and to schedule further ways to develop the CIS, transfers RT.
It is noted that the negotiations were initiated by the Russian President Vladimir Putin. “On the initiative of Vladimir Putin, on December 28 in St. Petersburg, a traditional informal meeting of the heads of States parties of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will be held,” said earlier in the Kremlin.
The leader’s meeting will be devoted to coordination of positions on the main international and regional topics, as well as summing up the year, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharov said.
The CIS summit will be held in the year of the 30th anniversary of the creation of the Commonwealth. In the October meeting of the Council of Heads of the CIS states, the President of Russia noticed that in three decades the organization was established as an authoritative regional integration association, in which the countries “seek to build relations on the principles of good neighborliness, partnerships, mutual benefits and accounting of each other’s interests.”
Experts believe that within the framework of the informal summit, the meeting of the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia can also be held.