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Ukraine Interested in Maintaining Ties With CIS: Reports

© Photo : CIS websiteThe Commonwealth of Independent States currently unites nine full members, which are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and two participating states –Turkmenistan and Ukraine.
The Commonwealth of Independent States currently unites nine full members, which are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and two participating states –Turkmenistan and Ukraine. - Sputnik International
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Ukraine has taken "no real steps" to sever its ties with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), despite "loud rhetoric" coming from Ukrainian authorities, Kommersant newspaper reported Friday, citing a source close to the CIS Executive Committee.

MOSCOW, October 10 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine has taken "no real steps" to sever its ties with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), despite "loud rhetoric" coming from Ukrainian authorities, Kommersant newspaper reported Friday, citing a source close to the CIS Executive Committee.

"Membership in the CIS gives Ukraine a large number of benefits – from visa-free movement of its citizens in the countries of the Commonwealth to its participation in the free trade zone. Unsurprisingly, despite the loud rhetoric, Ukrainian authorities are, in fact, in no rush to change their status in the CIS," the source was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

According to the source, Ukraine has been participating "very actively" in the redistribution of quotas for positions within the organization for the coming years.

The Commonwealth of Independent States currently unites nine full members, which are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and two participating states –Turkmenistan and Ukraine.

Despite the fact that Ukraine was one of three founding states that ratified the agreement to create the CIS in 1991, it did not ratify the CIS Charter, becoming an associate member of the alliance in 1993.

Speculations about Ukraine's withdrawal from the CIS came when Crimea signed a reunification treaty with Russia on March 18. Belarus took over the CIS presidency after Kiev announced that it would abandon its post as this year's rotating head of the CIS, adding it may reconsider its membership in the organization.

RIA Novosti was previously informed by sources in the CIS Executive Committee that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko would skip the organization's next summit, which is set to take place on Friday in Minsk.

On Thursday, Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Ministry representative Yevhen Perebiynis stated that Ukraine's unwillingness to participate in the summit at the presidential level was a "signal to the organization about where it has behaved incorrectly."

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