Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's upcoming participation in the meeting of the CIS Foreign Ministers Council
13 April 2023 12:00
696-13-04-2023
On April 14, Samarkand will host a regular meeting of the Foreign Ministers Council of the Commonwealth of Independent States. (In 2023, the Kyrgyz Republic is chairing the CIS.)
Its draft agenda includes 11 issues embracing a broad range of cooperation areas within the CIS. The ministers will exchange views on current international and regional matters and discuss prospects for multifaceted collaboration in the CIS format.
In the context of work to strengthen foreign policy coordination, the ministers will also sum up the results of the 2022 efforts to implement the Programme of Action to Enhance Partnership among CIS Foreign Ministries and the Plan of Multi-Level Foreign Ministry Consultations within the CIS.
Given the emerging geopolitical situation, there are plans to focus on ensuring security, law and order both in the CIS countries and along the perimeter of their borders.
It is expected that the participants will approve decisions in the law enforcement, cultural, humanitarian and educational areas. Specifically, plans include conferring on Russia's Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University the status of the CIS base for training and retraining journalists.
A number of documents approved by the ministers will be submitted for approval by the CIS Heads of Government Council on June 8, 2023, or the CIS Heads of State Council on October 13, 2023.
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