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Georgia Withdrawal from CIS be Discussed by CIS
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The withdrawal of Georgia from the Commonwealth of Independent States will be included in the agenda of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers and the Council of the Heads of State. This decision was taken at the session of the CIS council of permanent plenipotentiary representatives in Minsk on August 26.
Yevgeny Belov, the Russian Permanent Representative to CIS bodies, told journalists that the CIS Executive Committee received official papers from the Georgian Foreign Ministry on the withdrawal of this country from the CIS.
Commenting on the consequences of Georgia withdrawal from the CIS, Yevgeny Belov said: “I cannot give an utter evaluation, but I would like to note that within at least three years, Georgia hardly participated in the CIS activities, but the organization remained.”
The Russia’s representative underlined that the decision made by Georgia to leave the CIS is its right stipulated in the CIS statute. He added that Tbilisi confirmed its intention to observe all the treaties and agreements signed within the CIS framework until their expiration.
The CIS Council of Foreign Ministers will be held in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) on October 9 2008 and the session of the Council of the Heads of State will be held on October 10.
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