The General Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States (formerly known as the Executive Secretary) is the head of the CIS Executive Committee, the central body which has served the CIS since its establishment in 1991.
[1] By the decision of the Council of Heads of State on 1 January 2023, the formal title of Chairman of the Executive Committee – CIS Executive Secretary was changed to CIS General Secretary.
[2] The general secretary leads the executive committee (Russian: Исполнительном комитете), and all Secretariat staff are answerable to them.
He is supported by four deputy general secretaries:[3] It is the single permanent executive, administrative and coordinating body of the CIS The CIS Executive Committee organizes its work in close cooperation with the Council of Permanent Plenipotentiary Representatives among other bodies of the CIS.
The council on 21 June 2000, approved the Regulations on the executive committee.