Baku, Azerbaijan, Apr.12
By Elena Kosolapova - Trend:
Kazakhstan's initiatives on modernization of the CIS won't be able to increase the effectiveness of this organization, according to a Russian expert.
The Creation Agreement on the CIS and its charter clearly reflect the goals of founding this organization and these are integration goals, Ajdar Kurtov, a Russian expert , editor-in-chief of the RISS (Russian Institute for Strategic Studies) 'Problems of National Strategy' magazine, told Trend.
Now, it turns out that those goals haven't been achieved and the CIS members haven't tried to achieve them, he added.
During the meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers held in Moscow, one of the main topics was the initiative earlier put forward by Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev on modernizing and increasing the effectiveness of CIS and its structures.
Kurtov noted that Kazakhstan's proposals are about curbing the powers of CIS, many of its bodies and keep the CIS as a kind of platform to exchange views.
The expert believes that in this format, the organization's significance is not so high, since heads of CIS member states can meet on other international platforms as well.
He added that other organizations, for example, the Eurasian Economic Union, have already started to fulfill the integration initiatives.
One of the ineffective bodies is the CIS court, the decisions of which are not binding and there is no an enforcement mechanism for fulfilling them, according to Kurtov.
Moreover, there is no need for the CIS Parliamentary Assembly which adopts model laws, as the parliaments of the CIS countries independently work out laws applicable to the specifics of the state, the expert added.
Edited by SI
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