Today’s session of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers was a good opportunity to assess the works done over the past 30 years and outline the concrete directions of the future work, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said summing up the results of the Moscow session, reminding that this year the organization celebrates 30-th anniversary.
Lavrov stated that it was important to examine the implementation process of the cooperation boosting plan between the foreign ministries of the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) member states from foreign policy perspective. He reminded that this three-year program was approved last year at the initiative of Turkmenistan.
“We agreed to continue the practice of adopting joint statements aimed at spreading in the international organizations. The fresh evidence of this was the adoption of the statement on strengthening international law by the CIS foreign ministers on March 18, which we consider very relevant in a situation when some Western countries are trying to replace the international law with some rules”, the Russian Foreign Minister said.
He said that during today’s session the foreign ministers agreed to coordinate the steps at different international platforms, including in the UN, the OSCE, etc.
Lavrov also informed that today they approved the draft agreement on countering criminal income laundering, terrorism funding, and spread of weapons of mass destruction. “We have also adopted some decisions in military and humanitarian spheres, including a cooperation in youth exchange, gym and sports fields,” the Russian Foreign Minister said.
He also reminded that June 22 of this year marks the 80-th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Lavrov hopes that the leaders of the CIS countries sign the joint statement of the Council of Foreign Ministers, which will be prepared in the near future, by June 22 2021.
