Putin to Attend CIS Council in Bishkek

Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 16 will participate in a meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of State, which will be held in Bishkek, reports the official website of the Kremlin.

The presidents of the member countries, during the meeting, will sum up their activities and will "exchange views on key issues of further development of the Commonwealth."

The meeting was timed to complement the 25th anniversary of the CIS. As a result, the meeting will adopt several "multilateral instruments." In particular, statements on combating international terrorism, on the world drug problem, as well as statements in connection with the 25th anniversary of the CIS and on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the completion of the Nuremberg Tribunal.

In addition, the meeting will see the planning of certain organizational arrangements, in particular the Russian chairmanship in the CIS in 2017.

8TH on December 1991, the President of the rsfsr ( Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ), Boris Yeltsin, the Supreme Council of Belarus of the HEAD, STANISLAU Shushkevich, and the President of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, the Belovezhskoe Signed Agreement That effectively ended the existence of the Soviet Union and announced the creation of the territory of the former republics of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) formed when the former Soviet Union (now called Russia) totally dissolved in 1991. At its conception it consisted of ten former Soviet Republics: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan , Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

By Dimitri Dolaberidze