Overview
- Lawmakers denounced the CIS founding treaty, its protocol, and the charter in a vote Thursday, sending the bill to the president and setting up a 12-month notice once signed.
- Sixty members backed the measure in the final reading, completing parliamentary approval after an initial vote in March.
- Chisinau plans to stay in selected economic accords, including the CIS free trade deal, and the CIS chief said 208 agreements still apply to Moldova, with 104 tied to trade and the economy.
- CIS Secretary General Sergey Lebedev said Friday that no formal withdrawal note has arrived yet and warned Moldova cannot take part in closed CIS agreements, which could complicate its role in open ones during the transition.
- Moldova’s foreign ministry cited Russia’s war in Ukraine, actions against Georgia, and troops in Transnistria as violations of CIS principles, as President Maia Sandu’s government pursues EU integration and Moscow criticizes the move as duplicitous.