Belarus president encourages CIS to deal with serious problems in post-Soviet space

       The Commonwealth of Independent States should get down to dealing with serious problems in the post-Soviet space. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko made the statement during the restricted-attendance session of the CIS Heads of State Council:
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     “The CIS is very important as a venue for dialogue. And it should remain so by all means.
As times change, new formations have emerged in the post-Soviet space where the existing problems can be discussed more profoundly. The number includes the Eurasian Economic Union, the Union State of Belarus and Russia as the most advanced form of integration, the Collective Security Treaty Organization and other entities. Recently we’ve been leaning towards bilateral relations, we’ve been actually prioritizing them.
In other words, quite many vivid trends have emerged in the post-Soviet space that encourage us to adapt the CIS to the present-day reality right away.”