On Vladimir Putin's invitation, the Presidents of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia and Belarus will be in Moscow on July 2-3.
"Moscow will host an informal meeting of the CIS states' leaders, at which all the participants will be able in an informal atmosphere to talk about topics that interest them," Russian first deputy Foreign Minister Valery Loshchinin told RIA Novosti.
In his words, at the meeting, the heads of state will discuss the issues of "building the Commonwealth, realizing these or those CIS decisions."
The Russian president's press service told RIA Novosti that the CIS heads of state will in an informal atmosphere discuss the issues of preparation for the September summit in Astana, as well as the celebration of the 60th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
The deputy minister did not rule out that the meeting might touch upon the settlement of the Georgo-Ossetian conflict. "This topic may be touched upon for the peacemaking negotiation process to be continued," said the Russian diplomat.
"We proceed from the fact that sudden attacks that are heard from Tbilisi in regard to the activity of the Mixed Control Commission on settlement of the Georgo-Ossetian conflict [Russia, Georgia, North and South Ossetias] will move to the background," he said.
"The commission is the only negotiation mechanism where we should discuss the existing problems," Loshchinin stressed.
