Parliament Speaker Igor Grosu on Monday transmitted to the Government the application by which he asks to initiate the procedure for withdrawing the Republic of Moldova from the Interparliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CSI), IPN reports.

The decision was supported by most of the members of the Standing Bureau, said the Parliament’s press service.

Earlier, Speaker Grosu said that after the CIS founder Russia brutally attacked another founding state, Ukraine, occupying territories of this and killing its citizens, this organization can no longer be called a community. He noted that Moldova’s presence in the CIS bodies didn’t help the country resolve the Transnistrian conflict and obtain the withdrawal of the Russian army from its territory. “The CIS was created by Russia on the ruins of the USSR in order to keep the ex-soviet countries in its sphere of influence.”

The Commonwealth of Independent States was founded on December 8, 1991.