​CIS FOREIGN MINISTERS TO ADOPT STATEMENT AGAINST DISCRIMINATION OF CHRISTIANS AND MOSLEMS

A Joint Statement on inadmissibility of discrimination and intolerance towards Christians, Moslems and the representatives of other religions will be adopted at the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the CIS member countries that has opened in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) on Friday.

Moldova is represented at this forum by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Lilian Darii, who came to Tashkent yet on Thursday and has already held Moldova-Uzbekistan political consultations.

The Tashkent meeting is the first major political undertaking from the big program of events projected for 2017 in the framework of the Russian CIS presidency. The Joint Statement, to be adopted on Russia’s initiative, expresses common approaches of the Commonwealth of Independent States members to the problem topical for the whole world community.

The foreign ministers from the former Soviet republics will discuss also other questions pertaining to the key directions of the CIS activities.

One of the traditional topics, regularly tackled on the CIS sidelines, is cooperation in the law enforcement field. The CIS foreign ministers are considering the approval of a package of documents aimed at deepening interaction in this sphere such as e.g. the draft Concept of cooperation in preventing the legalization of illicitly acquired incomes, financing of terrorism and dissemination of mass destruction weapons, and other.