CIS leaders move towards finalizing Eurasian Charter to strengthen global security

The CIS countries will soon agree on the Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century – a program document aimed at strengthening international security, according to the Secretary General of the CIS, Sergei Lebedev.

"Currently, work is nearing completion in the Commonwealth countries on coordinating the text of the Eurasian Charter," he said, Caliber.Az reports via Russian media.

The CIS Secretary General noted that the main content of the Eurasian Charter is focused on "the swift establishment of a multipolar world and a fair global order, the formation of a new continental architecture for security cooperation, based on the principles of indivisibility of security, justice, legitimacy, stability, and the joint contribution of participants."

The document implies "the consolidation of the Eurasian space to ensure peace, stability, and universal prosperity on the continent in the interests of all its states." It also envisions "the use of multilateral cooperation mechanisms functioning on the Eurasian continent, including the EAEU, CSTO, CIS, SCO, ASEAN, SVMDA, OIC, GCC, the Union State, building cross-platform interactions between them, and implementing joint initiatives."

Lebedev pointed out that the charter addresses "counteracting attempts by external forces to interfere in the affairs of Eurasian states, hinder the processes of consolidation and cooperation on the continent, impose their development models, ideological frameworks, and foreign spiritual and moral values."

In November 2024, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that the preparation of the Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century is expected to be completed by the next annual Minsk Security Conference, scheduled for the second half of 2025.

According to the head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the program document will summarize all initiatives put forward at both the Minsk conference and other forums. The minister also noted that the development of the new charter is in line with the initiative proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding a new approach to security, focusing on the security of equals, security that would be ensured without the participation of external regional forces.

Lavrov emphasized that when developing the common principles of equal and indivisible Eurasian security, no doors are being closed to the countries of the western part of the continent, but only with the understanding that they will be ready to engage in joint work exclusively on the basis of equality and with a rejection of hostile block politics and neocolonial practices.