Council of Heads of State of the CIS

Council of Heads of State of the CISСовет глав государств СНГ

Agency overview
Formed| 26 December 1991
Preceding agency|

* State Council of the Soviet Union

Jurisdiction| Commonwealth of Independent States

The Council of Heads of State of the CIS (Russian: Совет глав государств СНГ), abbreviated in the Russian language as the SGG (СГГ), is a working body in the Commonwealth of Independent States. It serves as the supreme body of the CIS, and includes all the chief of state of CIS member states.[1] Regular meetings of the council are held annually. It was created following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, directly replacing the State Council of the Soviet Union. As of 2020[update] there are 9 members of the CIS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Turkmenistan is an associate state of the CIS.

## Activities

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The 2008 CIS heads of state summit family photo at Konstantin Palace in Strelna.

The activities of the Council of Heads of State are governed by the agreement on the establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States of 8 December 1991 and the CIS Charter of 22 January 1993.[2] At its meetings, the Council of Heads of State make decisions concerning amendments to the CIS Charter, the creation or abolition of bodies of the CIS, and optimizing the structure of the CIS, among others. Decisions of the Council of Heads of State are taken by consensus, with any member state having the ability to declare its disinterest in a particular issue.[2]

## Current members

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Armenia | Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan | 8 May 2018  |  |  Moldova | President Maia Sandu | 24 December 2020  |
Azerbaijan | President Ilham Aliyev | 31 October 2003  |  |  Russia | President Vladimir Putin | 7 May 2012  |
Belarus | President Alexander Lukashenko | 20 July 1994  |  |  Tajikistan | President Emomali Rahmon | 20 November 1992  |
Kazakhstan | President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev | 20 March 2019  |  |  Turkmenistan | President Serdar Berdimuhamedow | 19 March 2022  |
Kyrgyzstan | President Sadyr Japarov | 28 January 2021  |  |  Uzbekistan | President Shavkat Mirziyoyev | 14 December 2016  |

## Chairmen

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The chairmanship of the council rotates every year to the leader of a member state. The chairman's host country gets to host the annual summit in their country (most likely their capital city). The chairmanship exists in accordance with regulations approved by the council in Dushanbe in October 2008.[2] The following is a table of chairmen of the council.

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Russia | President Boris Yeltsin[4][5][6][7][8] | 1 January 1994 – 31 December 1999  |
Russia | President Vladimir Putin[9][10] | 25 January 2000 – 29 January 2003  |
Ukraine | President Leonid Kuchma[11] | 29 January 2003 – 16 September 2004  |
Russia | President Vladimir Putin | 16 September 2004 – 20 May 2006  |
Kazakhstan | President Nursultan Nazarbayev[12] | 20 May 2006 – 5 October 2007  |
Kyrgyzstan | President Kurmanbek Bakiyev | 5 October 2007 – 31 December 2008  |
Moldova | President Vladimir Voronin | 1 January – 11 September 2009  |
Moldova | Acting President Mihai Ghimpu | 11 September – 31 December 2009  |
Russia | President Dmitry Medvedev | 1 January – 31 December 2010  |
Tajikistan | President Emomali Rahmon | 1 January – 31 December 2011  |
Turkmenistan | President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow | 1 January – 31 December 2012  |
Belarus | President Alexander Lukashenko[13] | 1 January – 31 December 2013  |
Ukraine | President Viktor Yanukovych[14][15] | 1 January – 4 April 2014  |
Belarus | President Alexander Lukashenko | 4 April – 31 December 2014  |
Kazakhstan | President Nursultan Nazarbayev | 1 January – 31 December 2015  |
Kyrgyzstan | President Almazbek Atambayev | 1 January – 31 December 2016  |
Russia | President Vladimir Putin | 1 January – 31 December 2017  |
Tajikistan | President Emomali Rahmon[16] | 1 January – 31 December 2018  |
Turkmenistan | President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow[17] | 1 January – 31 December 2019  |
Uzbekistan | President Shavkat Mirziyoyev[18] | 1 January – 31 December 2020  |
Belarus | President Alexander Lukashenko[19] | 1 January – 31 December 2021  |
Kazakhstan | President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev | 1 January – 31 December 2022  |
Kyrgyzstan | President Sadyr Japarov | 1 January – 31 December 2023  |
Russia | President Vladimir Putin | 1 January – 31 December 2024  |
Tajikistan | Incumbent
President Emomali Rahmon | 1 January – 31 December 2025  |
Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kravchuk, and Stanislav Shushkevich signed the ceremony at the Viskuli Government House after the inaugural summit.

## Sessions

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### Early years

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The first meeting was held in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, where the Belovezha Accords were signed at Viskuli Government House.[20] In the Kazakh capital of Alma Ata on 21 December, the Alma-Ata Protocol was signed,[21] in which a provisional agreement on the membership and conduct of Councils of Heads of State and Government was concluded, as well as an agreement on Strategic Forces, Armed Forces and Border Troops. Many military documents were signed at a supplementary summit on 30 December in Minsk.[22][23]

### Later summits

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* 1994
* Moscow (15 April)
* Moscow (21 October)
* 1995
* Alma-Ata (10 February)
* Minsk (26 May)
* 1996
* January 19 - Moscow (19 January)
* Moscow (17 May)
* 1997
* Moscow (28 March)
* Chisinau (23 October)
* Moscow (29 April 1998)
* Moscow (2 April 1999)
* 2000
* Moscow (25 January)
* Moscow (21 June)
* Minsk (1 December)
* 2001
* Minsk (1 June)
* Moscow (30 November)
* Chisinau (7 October 2002)
* Yalta (19 September 2003)
* Astana (16 September 2004)
* Kazan (26 August 2005)
* Minsk (28 November 2006)
* Dushanbe (5 October 2007)
* Bishkek (10 October 2008)[24]
* Chisinau (9 October 2009)
* Moscow (10 October and 10 December 2010)[25]
* 2011
* Dushanbe (3 September)
* Moscow (20 December)[26]
* 2012
* Moscow (15 May)[27]
* Ashgabat (5 December)[28]
* Minsk (25 October 2013)[29]
* Minsk (10 October 2014)[30]
* Burabay National Park (16 October 2015)[31]
* Chong-Aryk, Bishkek (16 September 2016)[32]
* Sochi (11 October 2017)[33]
* Dushanbe (1 June 2018)
* Ashgabat (2019)
* Tashkent (2020)

## See also

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* Commonwealth of Independent States
* List of G7 leaders

## Notes

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1. ^ "Содружество Независимых Государств". www.ved.gov.ru. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
2. ^ a b c "Совет глав государств Содружества Независимых Государств - Исполнительный комитет СНГ". cis.minsk.by. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
3. ^ "Состав Совета глав государств СНГ". e-cis.info. Retrieved 2020-11-24.
4. ^ Решение о председательствовании в уставных органах Содружества Независимых Государств от 24 декабря 1993
5. ^ Решение о председательствовании в уставных органах Содружества Независимых Государств от 15 апреля 1994
6. ^ Решение о председательствовании в уставных органах Содружества Независимых Государств от 19 января 1996
7. ^ Решение о председательствовании в уставных органах Содружества Независимых Государств от 28 марта 1997
8. ^ Решение о председательствовании в уставных органах Содружества Независимых Государств от 29 апреля 1998
9. ^ Решение о председательствовании в уставных органах Содружества Независимых Государств от 25 января 2000
10. ^ Решение о председательствовании в уставных органах Содружества Независимых Государств от 1 июня 2001
11. ^ Решение о председательствовании в уставных органах Содружества Независимых Государств от 29 января 2003
12. ^ Решение о председательствовании в уставных органах Содружества Независимых Государств от 20 мая 2006
13. ^ Решение о председательстве в Содружестве Независимых Государств от 5 декабря 2012
14. ^ Решение о председательстве в Содружестве Независимых Государств от 25 октября 2013
15. ^ В марте 2014 председатель Верховной рады Украины Александр Турчинов объявил об отказе Украины от председательства в Совете глав государств.
16. ^ Решение о председательстве в Содружестве Независимых Государств от 11 октября 2017
17. ^ Туркменистан примет председательство в СНГ в 2019 году
18. ^ В 2020 году в СНГ будет председательствовать Узбекистан
19. ^ "Lukashenko outlines priorities of Belarus' Presidency in CIS in 2021". 18 December 2020.
20. ^ Agreement on the establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States (1991)
21. ^ Alma- Ata Declaration
22. ^ Interim Agreement on the Council of Heads of State and the Council of Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Independent States
23. ^ The Alma-Ata Protocols (Russian language)
24. ^ Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the CIS member states dated October 10, 2008
25. ^ Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the CIS member states dated December 10, 2010
26. ^ Informal meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the CIS member states dated December 20, 2011
27. ^ Informal meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the CIS member states dated May 15, 2012
28. ^ Meeting of the Council of CIS Heads of State from 5 December 2012
29. ^ Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the CIS member states dated October 25, 2013
30. ^ Meeting of the Council of CIS Heads of State dated October 10, 2014
31. ^ Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the CIS member states dated October 16, 2015
32. ^ Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the CIS Member States dated September 16, 2016
33. ^ Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the CIS member states dated October 11, 2017

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Leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States

* Aliyev
* Pashinyan
* Lukashenko
* Tokayev
* Japarov
* Sandu
* Putin
* Rahmon
* Berdimuhamedow
* Mirziyoyev

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