CIS summit to adopt statement on combating terrorism

BISHKEK, September 16. /TASS/. A statement on joint efforts to counter terrorism is to be made by the heads of state at the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) summit, head of the CIS Executive Committee, Sergei Lebedev, said following a narrow-format meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers on Friday. "The ministers approved the agenda and the meeting’s rules of procedure at a narrow-format meeting," Lebedev said. According to Lebedev, two additional issues were included in the agenda - "on the draft statement on the results of a special session of the UN General Assembly on the global drug problem" and "on a statement of the heads of state on future joint efforts to combat terrorism." He noted that the participants in the meeting approved the statements of the heads of state in connection with the CIS 25th anniversary, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary since the end of the Nuremberg Trials, on the results of the special session of the UN General Assembly and on future joint efforts to counter terrorism. "The foreign ministers also approved the draft decision on the adaption of the Commonwealth of Independent to the modern realities," he added. "All the above-mentioned documents will be submitted for consideration by the heads of state." Read more