Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, Dec. 5 / Trend H. Hasanov /
The 2013 chairmanship of the CIS has been passed to Belarus. The decision was taken at the summit of the CIS heads of state in Ashgabat on Wednesday, an official Turkmen source said today.
Turkmenistan held the chairmanship in 2012. A meeting of the Council of the Foreign Ministry was recently held in Ashgabat.
It was envisaged that the Turkmen chairmanship of the CIS would hold about 30 events in 2012.
The CIS consumer goods fair, a meeting of the Council on Agricultural Industry, the Council for Rail Transport of the CIS member-states, a meeting of the CIS Economic Council, the CIS Electric Power Council, the Forum of Creative and Scientific Intelligentsia of the CIS member-states and related international conferences on food security were all held in Ashgabat.