On December 5, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian participated in the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States held in Ashkhabad.

The Council's agenda included more than a dozen issues related to the documents to be presented during the discussion at the Summit of the Heads of the CIS states to be held on December 5, as well as issues
related to the main directions of a comprehensive cooperation in the CIS territory.

In particular Foreign Ministers discussed the draft of a declaration on the further development of cooperation in the frames of the CIS initiated under the Turkmen chairmanship. The draft was included in the Council's
agenda of the Heads of the of the CIS states.

At the Ministerial Council the Foreign Ministers touched upon issues related to the further deepening of cooperation in the humanitarian, ecological and security spheres, as well as in the sphere of struggle
against terrorism.

Foreign Ministers particularly discussed the issues of the implementation of upcoming inter-state CIS Cultural Capitals project and the issues related to the carrying out of a project of preparatory events
in the sphere of humanitarian cooperation of the CIS states for 2013-2014.

The draft of a decision for the preparation of the events dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 was discussed.

The Ministerial meeting focused on the activities of the CIS sectoral cooperation bodies, as well. In Particular, the Foreign Ministers touched upon the activity of the.

In Ashkhabad a meeting took place between Edward Nalbandian and Konstantin Grishchenko, Ukraine's Foreign Minister, which is going to assume the presidency of the OSCE in 2013.

During the meeting the sides discussed the results of the recently held Armenian-Ukrainian inter-governmental commission and the steps to be undertaken towards the further development of bilateral relations.

Ministers Nalbandian and Grishchenko touched upon issues included in the agenda of the OSCE Ministerial meeting to be held in Dublin on December 6-7.