BISHKEK, Sept. 16 (Xinhua) -- A package of 16 documents was signed here at the 25th session of the Commonwealth of Independent States(CIS) Council of Heads of State on Friday.
Four statements on anti-terrorism and other issues were also adopted at the one-day summit, said Sergey Lebedev, chairman of the Executive Committee and CIS executive secretary.
Member states discussed the state of affairs in the CIS and the necessity of adaptation of the Commonwealth to the new realities, he said.
"I am pleased to say that all heads of delegations unanimously noted the relevance of the CIS."
The statements, which were adopted almost unanimously by all the heads of the delegations, include the 25th anniversary of the CIS, which assesses the activities of the Commonwealth, states the need to improve and strengthen it.
CIS leaders signed statements on the results of the special session of the United Nations General Assembly, on further joint efforts to counter international terrorism and on the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials.
The summit is attended by Presidents of Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Belarus, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, and Moldova's Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan, Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan and Ukraine's Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan.
The participants of the summit took a decision to transfer presidency in 2017 to Russia.
The CIS is a regional organization formed during the breakup of the Soviet Union. Nine out of the 15 former Soviet Republics are member states, and two are associate members (Ukraine and Turkmenistan). Georgia withdrew its membership in 2008, while the Baltic states (Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia) refused to participate.
