Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said that the CIS is an important instrument and said that it has future.
The president said this at an informal meeting with the Club of Editors in Chief of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Baltic Countries and Georgia in Crimea, reads a posting on the president’s Web site.
“It [the CIS] will have future, if we determine together its place and role in the modern fast-moving world. I’m sure we will manage to do so,” the president said.
“I think today we could professionally and effectively discuss solutions to possible problems. We are not just searching for new approaches to the development of relations in the Eurasian space, we propose specific mechanisms,” Yanukovych said.
The president added that cooperation in sectors should be improved. According to him, such forms of cooperation will allow the sides to unite efforts and settle joint problems, as well as prevent splits in the European and Eurasian regions.
