On 21 October 2025, in the capital of Tajikistan, the city of Dushanbe, the 35th meeting of the Coordination Council of Prosecutors General of the CIS Member States was successfully held.
First, the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, Leader of the Nation, His Excellency Emomali Rahmon, received the heads of the delegations of the Prosecutor’s Offices of the CIS member states participating in the Coordination Council of Prosecutors General.
During the meeting, President Emomali Rahmon noted the establishment of a reliable system of cooperation among the Union countries over three decades to ensure the rule of law and combat crime, emphasizing the key role of the prosecution authorities.
He also drew attention to the need to strengthen interaction among the Prosecutor’s Offices within the CIS framework and other international and regional structures to counter transnational organized crime, as well as modern security threats and challenges.
The President expressed satisfaction with the positive outcomes of the recent CIS Heads of State meeting and the “Central Asia – Russia” Summit held in Dushanbe, highlighting the importance of adopting the three-year cooperation program of the CIS member states for countering terrorism and extremism for 2026–2028 to strengthen peace and security in the region.
Following this, the work of the meeting of the Coordination Council of Prosecutors General of the CIS Member States commenced.
The meeting was attended by delegations of the Prosecutor’s Offices of the CIS countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan – as well as the Secretariat of the Coordination Council.
The delegations of the Prosecutor’s Offices were led by: Anna Karenovna Vardapetyan, Prosecutor General of the Republic of Armenia; Andrey Ivanovich Shved, Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus; Galymzhan Mambetovich Koigeldiev, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Maksat Kubatovich Asanaliev, Prosecutor General of the Kyrgyz Republic; Alexander Vladimirovich Gutsan, Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation; Vokhidzoda Khabibullo Saidullo, Prosecutor General of the Republic of Tajikistan; Yuldashev Nigmatilla Tulkinovich, Prosecutor General of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Invited participants also included the Deputy Prosecutor General of Turkmenistan, the Deputy Secretary-General of the CIS, the Secretary-General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the Chairman of the State Duma Committee of the Russian Federation on Security and Anti-Corruption, the Head of the CIS Anti-Terrorism Center, and the Chair of the Council of Heads of Financial Intelligence Units of the CIS Member States.
During the meeting, best practices of the Prosecutor’s Offices of CIS countries represented in the Council were considered, including issues of environmental safety, confiscation of illegally acquired property, improvement of the criminal liability system, automation and analytical monitoring of the review of civil complaints, combating bureaucratic obstacles in the consideration of complaints in criminal proceedings, protection of minors’ rights, combating crime in the field of information and communication technologies, extremism and terrorism, as well as monitoring compliance with legislation in the construction sector.
Issues related to the criminogenic situation, investigative work, prosecutorial activities, the practice of applying agreements in the field of international legal cooperation to combat crime in CIS countries in 2024, and the implementation of CIS cooperation programs for 2024 were also reviewed. These included the Interstate Program of Joint Measures to Combat Crime for 2024–2028, the CIS Program of Cooperation in Combating Terrorism and Extremism for 2023–2025, and the CIS Program for Strengthening the Security of External Borders for 2021–2025.
Following a vote, Alexander Vladimirovich Gutsan, Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, was elected Chairman of the Council of Coordination of Law Enforcement Bodies of the CIS Member States.
By decision of the Council, Vokhidzoda Khabibullo Saidullo, Prosecutor General of the Republic of Tajikistan, and Maksat Kubatovich Asanaliev, Prosecutor General of the Kyrgyz Republic, were awarded the honorary badge “Honorary Prosecutor of the CIS Member States.”
The medal “For Strengthening the Rule of Law and Order” of the Coordination Council of Prosecutors General of the CIS Member States was also presented to representatives of the Prosecutor’s Offices of the CIS countries participating in the Council.
At the conclusion of the meeting, the Final Protocol was signed, appropriate decisions were adopted, and the venue for the next meeting was agreed upon.
Within the framework of the meeting, a number of bilateral meetings of the Prosecutors General of the CIS countries were held, including bilateral meetings of the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Tajikistan
