Presidents of seven countries - Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan began informal meeting in hotel "Ak-Bulak" of a suburb of Almaty. As the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev said, issues of security and economic integration are to be discussed. Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed to talk about "regional security, exchange views on measures to counter emerging threats."

In turn, the president of Russia Dmitri Medvedev expressed hope that today's informal summit would "find answers to the questions faced by our countries in this difficult year."