Today's anniversary meeting is being held in the year of the 35th anniversary of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Russian Minister of Justice Konstantin Chuychenko on Tuesday stated this at the 20th meeting of the Council of Ministers of Justice of the Member States of the CIS, in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.

"This is an important and significant milestone, which enables to record: although our countries are simultaneously integrating within other associations—the Union State, the EAEU, the SCO, the BRICS—it is the CIS that reminds us of the unprecedented level of our historical, cultural, legal, and humanitarian interconnection and commonality inherited from the Soviet past," added the Russian justice minister.

“At the same time, we view cooperation within the CIS space as a strategic means of transforming this commonality into a resource for constructive, sovereign, and mutually beneficial development of the legal sphere. Based on these goals, today we must recognize that the effectiveness of the Council of Ministers of Justice of the CIS in the long term will be determined by our willingness to take on new tasks and find agreed solutions to them,” Chuychenko noted.

“We must become the architects of a single, secure, and technological legal space of cooperation aimed at strengthening the rule of law and protecting the rights of our citizens. We are convinced that today’s event will enable us to make serious progress in this direction,” said the Russian minister of justice.