Reform of the CIS: A New Stage in the Organization’s Development?

... the countries also agreed to help enhance security, counter terror threats, and develop projects to harmonize information exchange systems for military purposes and protect participants in criminal trials. The detailed list of issues discussed at the CIS Foreign Ministers Council shows the significance of this body in terms of taking integration to the level of the more advanced integration structures such as the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU). Thus, the issues of optimizing the bodies of the Commonwealth become all the more relevant: in order to make its institutions more efficient, it is necessary to minimize the duplication of functions within integration structures. Thus, the decision ...