SCO to receive observer status in CIS

The leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States members have adopted a decision to establish the CIS+ format and grant observer status in the CIS to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Interfax reports.

The corresponding documents were signed following the CIS leaders' meeting in Dushanbe on Friday. Other documents adopted at the meeting include decisions on the concept of CIS member states' military cooperation through 2030, on the CIS secretary general (Sergei Lebedev has been reelected to this post), and the statement of the heads of the CIS states on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident. A total of 19 documents were adopted.