Meeting of Council of CIS Foreign Ministers held in Minsk

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MINSK, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- The meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Council of Foreign Ministers was held in Minsk on Thursday.

The ministers at the meeting approved a joint statement on strengthening the convention on the prohibition of biological and toxin weapons.

Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei said that the meeting participants exchanged views on international issues and cooperation within the CIS, paying special attention to the situation in Central Asia.

Makei called for strengthening the multilateral interaction of the CIS member states on the basis of the international law.

The cooperation of the CIS countries has great potential in the future, he said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the participants of the meeting adopted the Regulation on the International Association (Commission) of historians and archivists of the CIS member states. On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the World War II outbreak, the work of the commission will be focused on preventing distortions of the history of this event.

The meeting also approved a draft joint declaration of the heads of state-participants on the 30th anniversary of the CIS creation, as well as projects for the development of cooperation in biological security and migration. The ministers approved methodological recommendations for the development of draft international treaties concluded within the CIS.

The next meeting of the Council of CIS Foreign Ministers will take place in the capital of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, in April 2022. Enditem

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