YEREVAN. – The Acting Foreign Minister of Armenia, Edward Nalbandian, on Friday participated in and address at the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries.

This event, which Kyrgyzstan’s capital city of Bishkek hosted, was convened within the framework of the 25th anniversary of the CIS, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Increasing the efficiency of the activities of this organization, and its modernization against the backdrop of the modern-day realties were on the agenda of this meeting.

The FMs of the CIS member countries reflected on the avenues for closer cooperation in several domains.

The discussants also conferred on and approved the drafts of more than a dozen documents.

It was decided that the next meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the CIS countries will be convened in April 2017 in Tashkent, the capital city of Uzbekistan.