CIS Heads of State Council meeting

Before the meeting, the participants posed for official photographs.
The CIS Summit opened with a restricted-format meeting.
It was attended by President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of Azerbaijan
Ilham Aliyev Aliyev IlhamPresident of Azerbaijan , Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan Pashinyan NikolPrime Minister of the Republic of Armenia , President of Belarus
Alexander Lukashenko Lukashenko AlexanderPresident of Belarus , President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev Tokayev Kassym-JomartPresident of the Republic of Kazakhstan , President
of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov Japarov SadyrPresident of the Kyrgyz Republic , President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon Rahmon EmomaliPresident of Tajikistan , President
of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov Berdimuhamedov SerdarPresident of Turkmenistan , President of Uzbekistan Shavkat
Mirziyoyev Mirziyoyev ShavkatPresident of Uzbekistan and Secretary General of the CIS Sergei Lebedev. The talks continued in the extended
format with the CIS member states’ delegations.
After the talks, Vladimir Putin presented
the CIS Letter of Recognition to Chairman of the Heads of CIS Information
Agencies Council Andrei Kondrashov, and the Order of Friendship to CIS Deputy
Secretary General Ilkhom Nematov.
Following the CIS summit, a package of documents
was signed, including an appeal of the CIS Heads of State to the CIS peoples and the international community on the 80th anniversary of the victory
of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945.
The list of signed
documents includes, among others, the decisions on the CIS Interparliamentary
Assembly’s activities to strengthen integration cooperation; on the programme
of the CIS member states’ cooperation in deradicalisation for 2025–2027; on declaring 2027 the Year of Legal Education in the CIS; on declaring Lachin, Republic
of Azerbaijan, the cultural capital of the CIS in 2025, the city of Meghri,
Republic of Armenia, in 2026, and the city of Molodechno, Republic of Belarus,
in 2027; on the honorary title of the 1941–1945 City of Labour Glory of the Commonwealth of Independent States. A decision On the Statement of the Heads of State of the Commonwealth of Independent States on the Development of Cooperation in Civil Artificial Intelligence was also signed.