Kazakh President arrives in Crimea for participation in informal CIS summit
19:01, 10 July 2010
YALTA. July 10. KAZINFORM /Yernur Akanbay/ Today President Nursultan Nazarbayev has arrived in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in southern Ukraine for participation in an informal Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) summit.
It is expected that presidents Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakhsatn), Dmitry Medvedev (Russia), Viktor Yanukovych (Ukraine), Alexander Lukashenko (Belarus), Ilham Aliyev (Azerbaijan), Serzh Sargsyan (Armenia) will take part in the meeting in the Livadia Palace in Yalta.
At present, the Russian Federation chairs the CIS.