CIS officials discuss issues of movement of citizens in member states

Anvar Umarov · 15:53, 31.10.2009 · Updated 18:17 · 961 views

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.uz) -- Officials of the foreign ministries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) gathered in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, to discuss issues of citizens’ movement and activity in the territory of the member states.

Representatives of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine and the CIS Executive Committee participated at the consultations. Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan participated at the consultations as observers.

The sides agreed about single approached on majority issues in the agenda and expressed common intentions on solving problems of consular character in multilateral and bilateral formats.

Participants discussed wide-scale issues and problems related with mutual visits of the citizens, change of citizenship, rendering mutual legal aid on civil, family and criminal cases, inventorying of agreement base on cooperation in consular sphere.

Anvar Umarov

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