The International Organization for the Support and Promotion of the Russian language (Russian: Международная организация по поддержке и продвижению русского языка) under the auspices of the Commonwealth of Independent States is an organization that the CIS Council of Heads of State in Astana decided to create on 14 October 2022 in support of a proposal by President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
[2] According to the approved concept in 2022[3]: After gaining independence in the CIS participant states, a natural process of the rise and development of the languages of the peoples of the Commonwealth began, which became an integral element of state-building and the consolidation of society.
Representatives of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and the CIS Executive Committee participated in the meeting and considered amendments to the proposed documents.
The goals of the organisation will be to strengthen relations of friendship, good-neighbourliness, mutual understanding and mutually beneficial cooperation between countries, including on the issues of maintaining and promoting Russian as a language of interstate communication, its use as a means of access to world databases of knowledge and data in the field of culture, literature, history, as well as strengthening the status of Russian as an official and/or working language of international and regional intergovernmental organisations and structures.
The statement reaffirms the commitment to the use of the Russian language in mutual contacts and on the platforms of international organisations and forums, and stresses the intolerance of discrimination on linguistic grounds.