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UKRAINE INTERESTED IN MAINTAINING TIES WITH CIS: REPORTS
The Commonwealth of Independent States currently unites nine
full members, which are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and two
participating states -Turkmenistan and Ukraine.
(c) Photo: CIS website 12:14 10/10/2014
http://en.ria.ru/world/20141010/193895328/Ukraine-Interested-in-Maintaining-Ties-With-CIS-Reports.html
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MOSCOW, October 10 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine has taken "no real steps"
to sever its ties with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS),
despite "loud rhetoric" coming from Ukrainian authorities, Kommersant
newspaper reported Friday, citing a source close to the CIS Executive
Committee.
"Membership in the CIS gives Ukraine a large number of benefits -
from visa-free movement of its citizens in the countries of the
Commonwealth to its participation in the free trade zone.
Unsurprisingly, despite the loud rhetoric, Ukrainian authorities are,
in fact, in no rush to change their status in the CIS," the source
was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
According to the source, Ukraine has been participating "very actively"
in the redistribution of quotas for positions within the organization
for the coming years.
The Commonwealth of Independent States currently unites nine
full members, which are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and two
participating states -Turkmenistan and Ukraine.
Despite the fact that Ukraine was one of three founding states that
ratified the agreement to create the CIS in 1991, it did not ratify
the CIS Charter, becoming an associate member of the alliance in 1993.
Speculations about Ukraine's withdrawal from the CIS came when Crimea
signed a reunification treaty with Russia on March 18. Belarus took
over the CIS presidency after Kiev announced that it would abandon its
post as this year's rotating head of the CIS, adding it may reconsider
its membership in the organization.
RIA Novosti was previously informed by sources in the CIS Executive
Committee that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko would skip the
organization's next summit, which is set to take place on Friday
in Minsk.
On Thursday, Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry representative Yevhen
Perebiynis stated that Ukraine's unwillingness to participate in the
summit at the presidential level was a "signal to the organization
about where it has behaved incorrectly."
From: Baghdasarian
The Commonwealth of Independent States currently unites nine
full members, which are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and two
participating states -Turkmenistan and Ukraine.
(c) Photo: CIS website 12:14 10/10/2014
http://en.ria.ru/world/20141010/193895328/Ukraine-Interested-in-Maintaining-Ties-With-CIS-Reports.html
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Ukrainian President Unlikely to Attend CIS Summit: Kremlin Putin
to Take Part in CIS Meeting in Minsk October 10: Kremlin Heads
of CIS States to Meet in Minsk in October CIS to Hold Next Large
Counter-Terrorism Drills in Russia Russia to prepare intelligence
officers for CIS
MOSCOW, October 10 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine has taken "no real steps"
to sever its ties with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS),
despite "loud rhetoric" coming from Ukrainian authorities, Kommersant
newspaper reported Friday, citing a source close to the CIS Executive
Committee.
"Membership in the CIS gives Ukraine a large number of benefits -
from visa-free movement of its citizens in the countries of the
Commonwealth to its participation in the free trade zone.
Unsurprisingly, despite the loud rhetoric, Ukrainian authorities are,
in fact, in no rush to change their status in the CIS," the source
was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
According to the source, Ukraine has been participating "very actively"
in the redistribution of quotas for positions within the organization
for the coming years.
The Commonwealth of Independent States currently unites nine
full members, which are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and two
participating states -Turkmenistan and Ukraine.
Despite the fact that Ukraine was one of three founding states that
ratified the agreement to create the CIS in 1991, it did not ratify
the CIS Charter, becoming an associate member of the alliance in 1993.
Speculations about Ukraine's withdrawal from the CIS came when Crimea
signed a reunification treaty with Russia on March 18. Belarus took
over the CIS presidency after Kiev announced that it would abandon its
post as this year's rotating head of the CIS, adding it may reconsider
its membership in the organization.
RIA Novosti was previously informed by sources in the CIS Executive
Committee that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko would skip the
organization's next summit, which is set to take place on Friday
in Minsk.
On Thursday, Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry representative Yevhen
Perebiynis stated that Ukraine's unwillingness to participate in the
summit at the presidential level was a "signal to the organization
about where it has behaved incorrectly."
From: Baghdasarian