Russian President Vladimir Putin told about the priorities of the Russian Federation’s chairmanship of the CIS.
According to him, it is planned to pay priority attention to deepening economic integration, including interaction in the areas of digitalization, energy, industrial and agricultural cooperation, transport and communications, ecology and innovation.
Vladimir Putin suggested the Presidents of the Commonwealth to think together how to more effectively ensure the conjugation of integration processes in the CIS space, in particular, to strengthen contacts between the Commonwealth and the EAEU in the economic sphere and the CSTO and SCO in the field of security.
«Taking into account the fact that Russia will preside over BRICS in 2024, within which criteria and principles of cooperation with partner states are now being developed, we will pursue a policy of strengthening interaction between the CIS and this association. And in general, the Russian Federation, of course, will continue to make every effort to develop contacts of the Commonwealth with friendly countries and international organizations. In this regard, we welcome the decision taken today to establish observer and partner statuses in the CIS,» he concluded.
