The outgoing year of 2010 was successful for the post-soviet Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday.
The CIS is a loose association of former Soviet republics. It consists of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine. Georgia pulled out of the organization in 2009.
"The year was good as we reached agreement on free trade zones. Documents will be signed in the near future," Medvedev said following the results of the CIS summit held in Moscow on Friday. The papers are set to be signed December 20.
Economic cooperation between the CIS members did not bear any significant results in 2010, Medvedev admitted, but humanitarian and cultural cooperation is "set very well."
"The issues of common history and cultural counteraction unite us very well."
MOSCOW, December 10 (RIA Novosti)