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CIS DEVELOPMENT DOCTRINE APPROVED
Lilit Poghosyan
Hayots Ashkharh Daily
Oct 6 2007
Armenia
On October 5 the Armenian delegation, under the leadership of President
Robert Kocharyan, arrived in Dushanbe, the capital city of Tajikistan,
to participate in the regular CIS summit.
The principal mission of this particular meeting was the discussion,
coordination and adoption of the CIS Development Doctrine with a
prospect of making the current economic, political and humanitarian
integration more effective. The document was elaborated by the
intergovernmental working group, with the participation of the Deputy
Foreign Ministers and approved by the Foreign Ministers in a council
session convened the previous day.
The concept paper was approved by the CIS leaders first in a narrow
circle, i.e. with the participation of the Presidents, and then - in
an enlarged session. At the same time, they adopted an action plan
aimed at it implementation of the document. The key element of the
summit was the establishment of a new intergovernmental agency, the
Institute of Coordinators of CIS Countries which is vested with the
right to follow the process of the implementation of program activities
and report on the results, Together with those pivotal issues, there
are around 2 dozen issues of mutual interest included in the summit
agenda, e.g. regulation of migration processes, anti-terrorism,
prevention of drug trafficking, prospects of economic cooperation etc.
Let's note that all the leaders of the CIS countries, apart
from the Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko, present at the
summit. Mr. Yushchenko is currently engaged in very important tasks -
the regulation of the post-electoral processes. The representatives
of the three Caucasian Republics participated in the summit in full
staff. In the meantime, neither during the enlarged session nor in
the subsequent the press-conference there was any referral to the CIS
interstate conflicts: the Russian-Georgian and the Armenian-Azerbaijani
relations, which are, mildly speaking, unfriendly.
There were absolutely no discussions around the actual problems
regarding Armenia and the Caucasian region. The discussions were
mostly devoted to the common concerns of the CIS countries, their
problems and the ways towards their settlement.
The Presidents congratulated the Tajikistani President Emamoli Rahmokov
on the occasion of his 55th birthday which coincided with the opening
day of the summit.
This summit was not an ordinary one for the CIS Executive Secretary
Vladimir Roushaylo either. Having held the same post for 3 years,
Mr. Roushaylo ended his term of office and, receiving the approval
of the leader's of CIS countries, he handed over the administration
to Sergey Lebedev, his legal successor.
During the enlarged session, special attention was paid to the issue
of conducting a coordinated migration policy, because employment
migration is an urgent issue not only for the CIS countries, but also
the other states and peoples of the world, as Norsultan Nazarbaev, the
President of Kazakhstan mentioned in his speech. And it is necessary
to make efforts on the state and interstate level to ensure more or
less favorable working conditions and life standards for the former
USSR citizens residing in foreign countries, as well as create relevant
legal bases for the protection of their rights.
Lilit Poghosyan
Hayots Ashkharh Daily
Oct 6 2007
Armenia
On October 5 the Armenian delegation, under the leadership of President
Robert Kocharyan, arrived in Dushanbe, the capital city of Tajikistan,
to participate in the regular CIS summit.
The principal mission of this particular meeting was the discussion,
coordination and adoption of the CIS Development Doctrine with a
prospect of making the current economic, political and humanitarian
integration more effective. The document was elaborated by the
intergovernmental working group, with the participation of the Deputy
Foreign Ministers and approved by the Foreign Ministers in a council
session convened the previous day.
The concept paper was approved by the CIS leaders first in a narrow
circle, i.e. with the participation of the Presidents, and then - in
an enlarged session. At the same time, they adopted an action plan
aimed at it implementation of the document. The key element of the
summit was the establishment of a new intergovernmental agency, the
Institute of Coordinators of CIS Countries which is vested with the
right to follow the process of the implementation of program activities
and report on the results, Together with those pivotal issues, there
are around 2 dozen issues of mutual interest included in the summit
agenda, e.g. regulation of migration processes, anti-terrorism,
prevention of drug trafficking, prospects of economic cooperation etc.
Let's note that all the leaders of the CIS countries, apart
from the Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko, present at the
summit. Mr. Yushchenko is currently engaged in very important tasks -
the regulation of the post-electoral processes. The representatives
of the three Caucasian Republics participated in the summit in full
staff. In the meantime, neither during the enlarged session nor in
the subsequent the press-conference there was any referral to the CIS
interstate conflicts: the Russian-Georgian and the Armenian-Azerbaijani
relations, which are, mildly speaking, unfriendly.
There were absolutely no discussions around the actual problems
regarding Armenia and the Caucasian region. The discussions were
mostly devoted to the common concerns of the CIS countries, their
problems and the ways towards their settlement.
The Presidents congratulated the Tajikistani President Emamoli Rahmokov
on the occasion of his 55th birthday which coincided with the opening
day of the summit.
This summit was not an ordinary one for the CIS Executive Secretary
Vladimir Roushaylo either. Having held the same post for 3 years,
Mr. Roushaylo ended his term of office and, receiving the approval
of the leader's of CIS countries, he handed over the administration
to Sergey Lebedev, his legal successor.
During the enlarged session, special attention was paid to the issue
of conducting a coordinated migration policy, because employment
migration is an urgent issue not only for the CIS countries, but also
the other states and peoples of the world, as Norsultan Nazarbaev, the
President of Kazakhstan mentioned in his speech. And it is necessary
to make efforts on the state and interstate level to ensure more or
less favorable working conditions and life standards for the former
USSR citizens residing in foreign countries, as well as create relevant
legal bases for the protection of their rights.