Minsk hosts CIS ministerial consultations on OSCE issues

           The CIS ministerial consultations on the OSCE issues were held at the CIS Executive Committee in Minsk. The meeting was attended by delegations from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Ukraine, which is holding the OSCE Chairmanship in 2013. The participants discussed issues of cooperation between the CIS countries in the OSCE. "Note was taken of the usefulness of interaction of the CIS member states in international organizations, including the OSCE. The participants spoke in favor of the development of cooperation of the CIS Executive Committee and the CIS anti-terrorist center with the OSCE Secretariat,” informed the Department of the CIS Executive Committee.
The participants of the meeting also discussed the issues related to the Helsinki + 40 process and the preparations for the 20th meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Kyiv in early December 2013.