Kazakhstani politician: Withdrawal from embargo against Abkhazia should be discussed at CIS summit
Russian proposal to CIS member states to withdraw from the regime of sanctions against Abkhazia should be discussed at a CIS summit. Chairman of Ak Zhol Democratic Party of Kazakhstan Alikhan Baimenov expressed this opinion to REGNUM correspondent on March 11th.
“I suppose that the initiative should be first discussed by presidents during bilateral consultations and then introduced at a summit of CIS foreign ministers or CIS heads of government or CIS heads of state, since the decision to impose the embargo was made at the level of heads of CIS States at that time. Thus I consider that it is in the interests of the CIS to take a collective decision,” the party leader said.
As it was reported earlier, on March 6, Russian MFA addressed to the CIS Executive Committee an official note, which read that Russian Federation did not any longer consider itself bound by regulations of the Decision of the CIS Heads of State Council “On Measures to Settle the conflict in Abkhazia, Georgia,” of January 19, 1996. The Decision set a ban on trade, economic, financial, transport and other links with Abkhazia on the state level. Russian foreign ministry proposed to CIS member states to “undertake analogous steps and withdraw from the regime of restrictions against Abkhazia, established in 1996.”
19:33 03/12/2008
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