DUSHANBE, October 4, Asia-Plus — A summit meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will be held in the Tajik capital tomorrow, and a concept of further development of CIS and a plan of main events for implementation of the concept will top the summit’s agenda.
Officials point to the necessity and importance of preserving the CIS, while experts in many CIS states say the CIS states have become so different and no reforms will help this organization.
Shokirjon Hakimov, the head of the law and international relations chair at Tajik International University al deputy leader of the Social-Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT), adheres to this opinion as well.
According to him, the main problem impeding development of the Commonwealth is knotty relations between separate member nations of the CIS.
“These knotty bilateral relations make the CIS inefficient,” said Hakimov, “Moreover, inconsistency and unscrupulousness in fulfillment of set tasks as well as lack of political will at the CIS heads of state in tackling existing interstate bilateral problems as well as diametrically opposite positions of member nations on some problems suggest an idea that these countries are absolutely different and incompatible and the CIS potentials have been exhausted,” Hakimov said;
