Governmental Dimension

Decisions on organisational and financial matters of the CEI are taken at the Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs (MFA Meeting), convened once a year in the country holding the CEI Presidency. According to the CEI Guidelines and Rules of Procedure, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs decide on the following:

• political cooperation;
• participation in CEI activities;
• the organisational structure, areas and ways of cooperation;
• matters concerning the establishment and the operational structure of the working bodies;
• the formula of the annual contributions, annual budget and scale of contributions of the CEI Cooperation Fund;
• the appointment and recall of the CEI-ES Secretary General, the CEI-ES Alternate Secretary General and the CEI-ES Deputy Secretary General.

The next MFA Meeting will be held in Budva (Becici) on 15 June 2010 under the auspices of the Montenegrin CEI Presidency.