The Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States is a single permanent executive, administrative and coordinating body of the Commonwealth of Independent States, which ensures the organization of the work of the Council of Heads of State, the Council of Heads of Government, the Council of Foreign Ministers, the Economic Council and other bodies of the Commonwealth.
In its activities, the Committee is guided by the fundamental documents of the Commonwealth of Independent States, treaties concluded between member states within the Commonwealth, decisions of the Council of Heads of State, the Council of Heads of Government, the Council of Foreign Ministers and the Economic Council, and the Regulations.
CIS Executive Committee Office in Moscow The CIS Executive Committee organizes its work in close cooperation with the Council of Permanent Plenipotentiary Representatives of the Commonwealth member states to the statutory and other bodies of the Commonwealth and the Commission on Economic Affairs under the Economic Council of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
On April 2, 1999, the Council of Heads of State of the Commonwealth of Independent States decided to reorganize the CIS Executive Secretariat, the apparatus of the Interstate Economic Committee of the Economic Union, the working apparatuses of a number of interstate and intergovernmental sectoral bodies (there are 9 of them) into a single permanent executive, administrative and coordinating body – the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The CIS Executive Committee is the legal successor of the CIS Executive Secretariat, the Interstate Economic Committee of the Economic Union, and the working apparatuses of a number of interstate and intergovernmental sectoral bodies. Its main functions are to support the activities of the Council of Heads of State, the Council of Heads of Government, the Council of Foreign Ministers and the Economic Council, elaboration of proposals on the Commonwealth strategy, legal review of documents, analysis of the implementation of decisions, agreements and systematic informing of the supreme bodies of the Commonwealth, etc.
By the Protocol of June 21, 2000, the CIS Council of Heads of State approved the Regulations on the CIS Executive Committee.
In October 2007, Sergey Lebedev was appointed Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee – CIS Executive Secretary by the decision of the CIS Council of Heads of State. By the decision of the Council of Heads of State of the Commonwealth of Independent States from January 1, 2023 the title of the post of the Chairman of the Executive Committee – CIS Executive Secretary was changed to “CIS Secretary General”, and from the same period S.N. Lebedev became the Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
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