Putin: CIS Should be Preserved

During a visit to the Armenia capital of Yerevan on March 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that it is necessary to preserve the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). 
 
?Expecting outstanding achievements in the spheres of economy, political and military cooperation from the CIS naturally led to nothing, since there were no prerequisites for that,? news  agency RIA Novosti quotes Vladimir Putin as saying.

The Russian President describes the CIS as a ?useful club? for the exchange of information as well as for the determination of opinions on common problems and economic and humanitarian issues.

“Where is a better platform for the discussion of these issues than the CIS?” Putin said. 

According to him, the main purpose behind the Commonwealth of Independent States was to symbolically have a civilized divorce after the Soviet Union’s disintegration. ?It had no other integrated purpose,? the Russian President added.

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