The jubilee summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States was held in Bishkek — the Kyrgyzstan chairs the organization in the year of the 25th anniversary of the CIS. The leaders agreed to start the optimization process of the organization with the obligatory saving of the Commonwealth. It was also decided to conduct a population census in the CIS in 2020. Not without a small diplomatic picks: an attack on the representative of Ukraine said the Russian President.
25 years ago, CIS was created to maintain economic, political and humanitarian ties between the former Soviet republics. But joining the organization immediately refused Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. To his chetvertakova anniversary of the Commonwealth were not without losses: in 2008, after a five-day war left organization in Georgia, has dramatically reduced the level of participation in the CIS, Ukraine — Bishkek country was represented by Ukrainian Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan. From Uzbekistan to the summit the Minister of foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan, Deputy Chairman of the government. The delegation of Moldova at the summit was chaired not by the President, and the Prime Minister. In addition, Chisinau officially refused to be the CIS Chairman next year, therefore, according to the Protocol, chairing the Commonwealth in 2017 will be Russia.
Ukraine was represented at the event at the lowest diplomatic level, but their claims sounded. The Ambassador of the country Nikolay Doroshenko marched against the transition of the presidency to Russia because of tensions in the Donbass and the Crimea into the Russian Federation. Doroshenko called the situation with the Crimea “annexation” and said that Ukraine will take part in the census CIS, but does not recognize its results, if the Crimean population would be counted as a Russian.
The first thing I would like to say that Russia did not annexed. All that has happened with the Crimea, — the result of illegal actions of certain political forces in Ukraine, which brought the case before the coup. And Crimea has joined Russia as a result of expression of people living on this territory. This action is in full compliance with international law and the Charter of the United Nations, with the relevant decisions of the courts of the United Nations on similar issues in the practice of the international court of justice, — said Vladimir Putin.
The Russian President also noted that Ukraine has not signed or ratified the CIS Charter, so Kiev can not affect the format of the work of the organization.
The summit was held at the state residence “Ala-Archa”, and settled where the leaders of the CIS countries. At the ceremony the participants of the summit with Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev many of them, contrary to Protocol, reached on foot. For example, the heads of Belarus and Kazakhstan came together, but after some discussion, decided that the first will include all the same Nursultan Nazarbayev. After he entered the building, Alexander Lukashenko.
At the talks, the Russian leader raised the issue of double standards in global politics, citing the example of the resolution of the American athletes to use stimulants.
— We do not agree with what hackers are doing, but what they did can not be interesting for the international community, especially the sports community, because there is a lot of questions. Seemingly healthy athletes to legally take the drugs that are prohibited for others, and people that are clearly suffering serious illnesses, severe disabilities, even on suspicion of making what?some drugs are excluded from the Paralympic games. It does not fit perfectly in any frame, — said Vladimir Putin.
Opening the meeting in the extended format, Almazbek Atambayev urged to honour the memory of the deceased President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov with a moment of silence. In addition, Atambayev voiced by Nazarbayev’s proposal to make a separate appeal to the people of Uzbekistan with the call for unity and stability in the country.
Speaking about the CIS, the Kyrgyz leader called to take care of any platform for negotiations.
Egor Sozaev-Sasha
