ITAR-TASS News Agency
TASS
March 2, 2005 Wednesday 1:32 PM Eastern Time
Rushailo arrives in Yerevan for working visit
By Tigran Liloyan
YEREVAN
Vladimir Rushailo, the CIS executive secretary and the chairman of
the CIS executive committee, will hold a series of meetings with
Armenian leadership during his working visit to Armenia.
“The questions, which we are going to discuss, concern the
implementations of the decisions of the CIS summit in Astana,”
Rushailo said upon his arrival in Yerevan on Wednesday.
The September CIS summit was devoted to anti-terror struggle and ways
of intensifying international cooperation. It was also decided to
reform the Commonwealth’s executive bodies.
Rushailo said that the preparation for a number of vital meetings is
currently under way. The Council of the CIS Foreign Ministers will
meet in Minsk on March 18, 2005, the Council of the CIS heads of
government will be held late in April and the Council of the CIS
heads of state will meet in Kazan in the third decade of August.
The sides will also discuss the implementation of decisions of the
Council of the CIS heads of state on the celebrations of the 60th
anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War.