Belarus (bbabo.net), - Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking today, October 7, at the summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States in St. Petersburg, pointed out the need to develop measuresolve conflicts in the CIS space.

“We will touch upon security issues in the Commonwealth space. After all, in addition to Ukraine, where truly tragic events are taking place, unfortunately, conflicts sometimes arise between other close states of the post-Soviet space. This, of course, requires the development of measuresolve them,” the head of state said.

Putin called the current informal CIS summit an opportunity to compare notes before the annual full-scale meeting of the Commonwealth Council of Heads of State next week in Astana.

As reported by bbabo.net, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed confidence late last month that the CIS format could be useful for solving the problems that exist between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

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