Press release on CIS Foreign Ministers Council Meeting

On April 11, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attended a regular meeting of the CIS Foreign Ministers Council in Almaty.

The participants discussed a wide range of global and regional matters as well as interaction within the CIS. Sergey Lavrov set out Russia’s assessment of the current and future international developments, including in the context of the Ukraine crisis, as well as Russia’s efforts to build an architecture of equal and indivisible security for Eurasia.

The ministers summed up the results of the joint efforts by the CIS foreign ministries in 2024 and outlined plans for further inter-ministry collaboration and foreign policy coordination within the CIS. The ministers paid special attention to preparations for the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the holding of relevant anniversary events in the CIS countries.

The meeting resulted in the approval of a package of decisions directed at stepping up integration ties in culture and humanitarian affairs, law enforcement, defence, and security. The status of CIS anchor institutions in the area of education was assigned to Army General Sergey Shtemenko Krasnodar Higher Military School and the Social and Industrial Foodservice Institute (Moscow).

Several documents approved by the ministers will be submitted to the CIS Council of Heads of State and the CIS Council of Heads of Government for approval.

The next ministerial meeting is scheduled to take place ahead of the CIS Summit in Dushanbe on October 9.