DUSHANBE, October 5, Asia-Plus --A plane of Azeri President Ilham Aliyev is expected to land at the Dushanbe airport today, at noon.   

Azeri president will attend a CIS summit that will open in Dushanbe today afternoon.  At first, the CIS presidents will meet in a narrow composition and then a plenary session will start.  A concept of further development of the CIS and program of actions aimed at introducing the concept will be major topics of the Dushanbe summit.   

The draft concept provides for further evolutionary development of the CIS and expansion of political and economic cooperation between the CIS member nations.  The actions of the plan should meet international standards and norms. First of all it concerns norms of the World Trade Organization, as all CIS member states want to join it

We will recall that the Belarus capital Minsk hosted the Interstate Working Group’s session on preparing a draft concept for further development of the Commonwealth of Independent States on September 14.  The plan was drafted on the instructions of the CIS Heads of State that were given during the June meeting in St. Petersburg.  The plan embraced 9 sections including the provisions of the conception.

            President Aliyev will also attend a session of the Interstate Committee of the Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC), which will be held in the Tajik capital tomorrow, as observer.