Marian Lupu goes to Moscow

Moldova’s Acting President Marian Lupu will take part in the jubilee Summit of CIS Heads of State, where he will meet with his counterparts from the Commonwealth of Independent States, Info-Prim Neo reports, quoting the presidential press service. Marian Lupu will have a series of meetings that will center on the development of the relations between the states, especially the economic and humanitarian ones. The jubilee summit is held on the occasion of 20 years of the foundation of the CIS. The event will take place in Russia’s capital Moscow on December 20. The Commonwealth of Independent States was created on December 8, 1991 by the Presidents of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. Two weeks later, the leaders of 11 sovereign countries, except for the Baltic States and Georgia, signed in Alma-Ata a protocol to the agreement, whereby Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine founded the CIS on the basis of sovereign equality. Georgia joined the CIS in December 1993. After the events of August 2008, when the Russian troops intervened in the military confrontation between Georgia and the South-Ossetian and Abkhazian separatist regimes, the Parliament of Georgia unanimously voted in favor of withdrawing from the Commonwealth.