Conference dedicated to 20th birthday of CIS winds up in Belarus
Minsk, September 29 (AZERTAC). The capital of Belarus hosted an International Scientific Conference on theme “20 years of the Commonwealth of Independent States”.
The conference has brought together participants from CIS member states, political and public figures, scientists, business leaders and financiers.
The conference focused on cooperation between CIS member states in economic, humanitarian areas as well as in the sphere of seciruty and fight against crime and terrorism.
The conference was followed by the briefing.
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional organization whose participating countries are former Soviet Republics, formed during the breakup of the Soviet Union. CIS promotes cooperation on democratization and cross-border crime prevention. As a regional organization, CIS participates in UN peacekeeping forces.
The organization was founded on 8 December 1991 by the Republic of Belarus, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine, when the leaders of the three countries met in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha Natural Reserve and signed a Creation Agreement on the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the creation of CIS as a successor entity to the USSR. The CIS charter stated that all the members were sovereign and independent nations and thereby effectively abolished the Soviet Union.
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