The matter of conducting reforms within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will be discussed in the next session of the Council of CIS Foreign Ministers, Kommersant daily newspaper of Russia reported citing its sources.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan, which is the current CIS Chairmanship country, informed that the moment is ripe for a reform within the CIS, and noted that Bishkek does not plan on becoming the gravedigger of this organization. 

As per Kommersant, Kazakhstan is the initiator of these changes.

A diplomatic source explained that Astana considers that the CIS should become a compact organization that will not duplicate the functions of more advanced integration organizations, such as the Eurasian Economic Union and the Collective Security Treaty Organization, but rather it will use its member organizations as a platform to discuss critical regional problems, such as the Ukraine and the Karabakh issues.

Armenia is a member country in the CIS.