An effective platform for negotiations. A meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Minsk. It was attended by heads and representatives of diplomatic departments of Belarus, Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Armenia.
In addition to summarizing the results of diplomatic cooperation for 2023, the heads of the foreign ministries exchanged views on topical issues on the international agenda. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of our country emphasized: CIS consists of independent states.
Sergei Aleinik, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus:
“Our organization consists of independent states. This is inviolable and no one has ever questioned it, but at the same time our organization is a commonwealth. This is what has always allowed us to find compromises and build a common unifying agenda on a whole range of issues of development of our Commonwealth for the benefit of our countries and peoples. A constructive agenda, an agenda that is linked to economic development, to the fulfillment of a whole range of social and humanitarian problems and, of course, security issues, which we have also talked about in great detail today.”
The collective West is pushing us towards closer consolidation in the CIS. This was stated by the Secretary General of the organization after the meeting of the CIS Council of Ministers in Minsk.
