The next meeting of the Council of Ministers of foreign Affairs (CMFA) of the CIS will be held April 8 in the capital of Russia, said the head of the Executive Committee of the organization Sergey Lebedev.

"Accepted the conclusion of the next meeting of the CIS Council of foreign Ministers on 8 April 2016 in the capital of Russia ", - said Lebedev at the meeting of the Council of foreign Ministers in Astana.

the meeting of the Council of Ministers of foreign Affairs of the CIS in expanded format started on Thursday in Astana. This was preceded by dialogues in a narrow format. Russia is represented at the meeting by the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov, Kazakhstan - Minister of foreign Affairs Erlan Idrissov.

according to the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan, equally participate in the conference foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandian, Kyrgyzstan - Erlan Abdyldaev, Tajikistan - sirodjidin Aslov, Uzbekistan - Abdulaziz Kamilov. In the meeting participated the Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Khalaf Khalafov and Turkmenistan - Vepa Hajiyev, 1st Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of Belarus Alexander Mikhnevich, Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs and European integration of Moldova Andrey Galbur. Similarly, in the event charge d'affaires of Ukraine in Kazakhstan Yuri Lazebnik, and CIS Executive Secretary Sergey Lebedev.

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