“There is proverb saying “a bad peace is better than a good war”. I think the CIS ensures at least stability in the zones with frozen conflicts,” Deputy Prime Minister and Minster of Economy Valeriu Lazars said Friday in a news conference held in concert with the Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee Sergei Lebedev, Info-Prim Neo reports. After the CIS summit, Lazar said that the cooperation with the friends and colleagues from these countries and the mediation with them allowed moving towards finding a solution and taking mutually advantageous decisions. “It is better to have a frozen conflict and work to solve it, than to have an unfrozen conflict,” Lazar said, when asked about the CIS's capacity to solve the frozen conflicts existing in its area. Serghei Lebedev said these conflicts have very deep roots and their causes have nothing to do with the Commonwealth. “These problems have been discussed by the CIS heads of state, who confirmed their wish to contribute to solving them,” Lebedev said, adding: “The meeting of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan on the sidelines of the summit and the meeting between them and the Russian president, which is to take place today, prove that attempts are being made to settle these disputes.” According to him, the Transnistrian dispute will be a subject for discussion at the bilateral meetings between Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev and Moldovan officials later today. “Owing to the join efforts made by the CIS member states, the bloodshed and civil war in Tajikistan was stopped and there was ensured stability,” Lebedev said.