The foreign ministers of the CIS member nations will meet in the Uzbek city of Samarkand on April 14.
An official source within Tajik Foreign Ministry says Tajik Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Muhriddin will head the Tajik delegation at a meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers.
The delegation from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan as well as representatives of the CIS Executive Committee will also participate in the meeting.
Citing Russian Foreign Minister spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, BelTA says the foreign ministers will exchange views on topical issues of the international and regional agenda, discuss prospects for multifaceted cooperation in the CIS format and “take stock of the results of inter-ministerial cooperation in the past year.”
“Special attention will be paid to international security, as well as contacts with law enforcement, cultural, humanitarian and educational spheres,” the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was cited as saying.
The Council of Foreign Minister of the CIS Member Nations is the main executive body ensuring cooperation in the field of foreign policy activities of the CIS member states on the matters of mutual interest, adopting decisions during the period between the meetings of the Council of the CIS Heads of State, the Council of the CIS Heads of Government and by their orders. The first session of the Council took place in August 1993.
