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Before the meeting, the participants posed for official photographs.

The CIS Summit opened with a restricted-format meeting. It was attended by President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov, President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Secretary General of the CIS Sergei Lebedev. The talks continued in the extended format with the CIS member states’ delegations.

After the talks, Vladimir Putin presented the CIS Letter of Recognition to Chairman of the Heads of CIS Information Agencies Council Andrei Kondrashov, and the Order of Friendship to CIS Deputy Secretary General Ilkhom Nematov.

Following the CIS summit, a package of documents was signed, including an appeal of the CIS Heads of State to the CIS peoples and the international community on the 80^th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945.

The list of signed documents includes, among others, the decisions on the CIS Interparliamentary Assembly’s activities to strengthen integration cooperation; on the programme of the CIS member states’ cooperation in deradicalisation for 2025–2027; on declaring 2027 the Year of Legal Education in the CIS; on declaring Lachin, Republic of Azerbaijan, the cultural capital of the CIS in 2025, the city of Meghri, Republic of Armenia, in 2026, and the city of Molodechno, Republic of Belarus, in 2027; on the honorary title of the 1941–1945 City of Labour Glory of the Commonwealth of Independent States. A decision On the Statement of the Heads of State of the Commonwealth of Independent States on the Development of Cooperation in Civil Artificial Intelligence was also signed.