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The Presidents of Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan, Ilham Aliyev and Almazbek Atambayev, have ignored the CIS summit held in the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat. They rejected to attend the event, pleading business, Azerbaijan’s news agency Turan reported.

Azerbaijan was represented at the summit by the Prime Minister, Artur Rasizade, and Kyrgyzstan was represented by the First Deputy Premier, Djoomart Otorbayev, the news agency said.

On Wednesday, following the one-day summit of the CIS in Ashgabat, 20 documents were signed, Turan said.

In particular, a decision on implementing in 2013 an inter-state program "Cultural Capital of the Commonwealth" in Azerbaijan, Armenia and Belarus was signed.

The meeting participants also signed an agreement on cooperation in the organization of an integrated currency market of the Commonwealth.

The leaders also signed an agreement on cooperation in training anti-terrorist units in the educational institutions of the competent authorities of the countries of the Commonwealth. In addition, an agreement on cooperation in the logistics of the competent authorities involved in combating terrorism and other violent manifestations of extremism was signed, the Azerbaijani news agency said.