Sergei Lebedev Re-Elected as CIS Secretary General Amid Regional Cooperation Efforts

Sergei Lebedev, Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), has been re-elected for another three-year term. He announced 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.