DUSHANBE, April 19, 2011, Asia-Plus — Tajikistan has developed a concept of chairmanship and a plan of primary tasks for the period of its rotating CIS chairmanship.
Prime Minister Oqil Oqilov remarked this today at a meeting with visiting CIS Executive Secretary Sergey Lebedev.
According to the Prime Minister’s Secretariat, Oqilov assured Lebedev that Tajikistan would pay a special attention to expansion of economic and humanitarian cooperation within the CIS area and problems of countering ideological terrorism, intolerance and xenophobia.
He also noted that an efficient resolution of problems arising within the CIS area depended to a large extent on activity of the CIS Executive Council and added that Tajikistan was ready to thoroughly support the CIS Executive Council activities, the source said.
Tajikistan assumed the rotating CIS chairmanship for this year and Dushanbe will host the summit of the CIS heads of state in September this year.
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional organization whose participating countries are former Soviet Republics, formed during the breakup of the Soviet Union. It now consists of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine. Georgia pulled out of the organization in 2009.
