15. For the Central Asian republics, trade with foreign (non CIS) countries fared rather better than did their CIS trade.

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Peacemaking in the CIS countries is not an quot independent Russian activity quot .

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It operates domestic services and services to the CIS countries and the Middle East.

All CIS countries take own consumption into account in the preparation of average prices.

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CIS has national focal points in 70 countries, developing and industrialized several of these provide access to data from CIS and other sources to users at national and regional levels.

Eastern Europe and CIS

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279,906 migrants arrived to the Russian Federation the same year, of which 93 came from CIS countries.

The problem of environmental security remains one of the urgent and unresolved problems in the CIS countries.

In June 2005 the CIS Council of Heads of Governments had also adopted an agreement on cooperation to combat taxation fraud, which had already been signed by a number of CIS countries.

Currently all the CIS countries are searching for types of State structure which are suited to internal conditions.

Eastern Europe and CIS (N 4)

Ukraine, as one of the founders of the Commonwealth of Independent States, is actively developing cooperation with the CIS countries.

They noted collective efforts in this regard by a group of member countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

Transition economies Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

The country has had a limited military partnership with Russian Federation, other CIS countries and a partnership with NATO since 1994.

Half of the CIS and South East European countries are expected to miss at least one of the Millennium Development Goals.

Many CIS countries had adopted special national programmes to prevent and suppress illegal migration, human trafficking and the transborder weapons trade.

Note Two dots () signify that data are not available. CIS Commonwealth of Independent States OPEC Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.

UNODC has also intensified its technical cooperation activities with the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Central Asia.

An important element in ensuring the successful implementation of market reforms is improvement of the national legislations of the CIS countries.

The CIS has adopted a concept on the prevention and settlement of conflicts in the territory of States of the CIS.

A round table for CIS and Eastern European countries was organized as a side event to discuss decentralization in the context of countries in transition to market economy.

The CEE CIS Regional Office provides oversight, programme support and technical inputs to 22 countries, including four under the multi country programme.

We are in favour of expanding the initiative initially addressed to the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries to cover other regions.

Treaties within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

South East Europe and the CIS countries have a high share of people living in poverty, with the incidence remaining high in seven low income countries in that region.

Current conditions show that, while the mechanisms of CIS can be improved, CIS should not be regarded as the only form of association.

The Terrorism Prevention Branch has intensified its technical cooperation activities with the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Central Asia.

22. It was noted by others that four CIS countries had already agreed on the modalities of a peace keeping operation in Tajikistan.

In virtually all the CIS countries today there is a growing desire for closer cooperation and a genuine, rather than merely proclaimed, integration.

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(a) Cooperation and coordination between UNOMIG and the CIS peace keeping force to be maintained at four levels force headquarters, sector zone headquarters, the UNOMIG monitoring team with the CIS battalion and the UNOMIG patrol with CIS patrols

Furthermore, the Republic of Kazakhstan is actively cooperating with CIS and other countries through bilateral and multilateral agreements in the sphere of migrants' protection.

The Russian Federation consistently advocates the broadest possible participation of the United Nations and CSCE in the settlement of conflicts in the CIS countries.

CIS, as an inter State association, is playing a positive role in the legal formalization of the inter State relations of its member countries.

It is apparent that the efforts that individual CIS countries are continuing to make on their own to resolve this problem are still unsuccessful.

The CIS countries are helping Tajikistan with the protection of its southern borders, which are at the same time the borders of the Commonwealth.

Conflicts in a number of CIS countries threaten not only the security of our State, but also security at the regional and global levels.

This serves the interests of all members of the CIS.

As a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), we faithfully coordinate all our activities in this area with the other members of the CIS.