CIS Secretary General Lebedev announced his re-election for another three-year term.

Sergei Lebedev, Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), has been re-elected for another three-year term. He stated this on October 10 during an expanded meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Commonwealth in Dushanbe.

"By the decision of the Council of Heads of State, your humble servant was appointed Secretary General of the Commonwealth for another three—year period [at a meeting] in a narrow format," TASS quoted him as saying.

Lebedev also thanked the heads of state for their high trust and added that he would continue to "work for the preservation and strengthening" of friendly and good-neighborly relations between the CIS countries and peoples.

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Lebedev said on October 9 that the meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers had been productive. He added that the idea that the commonwealth ordered a long life has nothing to do with reality. According to the Secretary General, the CIS member states are showing economic growth, and sanctions cannot destroy their cooperation.

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