An informal CIS summit
took place in St Petersburg.
December
20, 2019
17:00
St
Petersburg
CIS informal summit.
The summit was attended
by Vladimir Putin, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Prime
Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, President of Belarus Alexander
Lukashenko, first President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, President
of Kyrgyzstan Sooronbay Jeenbekov, President of Moldova Igor Dodon,
President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon and President
of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.
Vladimir Putin told
the participants about the archive materials
on the pre-history of World War II and invited them
to tour a specially organised exhibit.
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Speech
at the informal CIS summit
President of Russia
Vladimir Putin: Colleagues, I am very happy to see you.
I would like to welcome you once again, in this “very extended”
format of CIS heads of state.
We have resolved
on events dedicated to the end of the Great Patriotic
War between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany
and the Victory of the Soviet Union.
Let me stress that
for all of us, and I know you agree, it is a special
date because our fathers and grandfathers sacrificed a lot
to our Fatherland, our common Fatherland back then. In fact, every
family in the former Soviet Union in one way or another suffered
from what happened with our country and the world.
We have discussed this many
times both formally and informally and decided to work together
on the eve of the 75th anniversary.
I would like to share some of my thoughts on this.
