Foreign policy planning issues discussed within the CIS

Nur-Sultan, December 13, 2021 - Inter-ministerial consultations on Foreign Policy Planning of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the CIS Member States took place at the CIS Executive Committee. Representatives of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, as well as Azerbaijan and Moldova, observer countries, attended the consultations.

The participants discussed national practices of strategic and foreign policy planning, exchanged views on the main trends in the developments in the world and in the CIS.

Director of the Department of Foreign Policy Analysis and Forecasting of the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Kazakhstan Yerlan Shamishev stressed the complex transformation of the modern system of international relations, crisis phenomena in the global economy, which can lead to a serious aggravation of challenges and threats to the security of the states.

Kazakh diplomats also spoke about the National Development Plan until 2025, which presents 10 concrete steps for improving the well-being of citizens, the quality of institutions and building a strong economy, as well as about the practice of foreign policy planning in line with the Concept of Kazakhstan's Foreign Policy for 2020-2030.

Representatives of the CIS member states highlighted the importance of such meetings to exchange views on a wide range of issues in politics, economy, culture and humanitarian areas.