Chiefs Of CIS Special Services To Meet In Tajikistani Capital In Mid-May - Secretary

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 05th April, 2019) The heads of special services of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will hold a meeting in the Tajikistani capital of Dushanbe in the middle of May, Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee Sergey Lebedev said on Friday.

"In the middle of May, a meeting of the heads of our special services will take place in Dushanbe, it is a very important event," Lebedev said at a press conference on the results of the CIS Foreign Ministers' meeting in Moscow.

The CIS, a regional organization created in 1991 by former Soviet Union members, aims to promote economic, political and security cooperation between its members.

It includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Turkmenistan is an associate member of the organization.