The 2006 Minsk Summit was a Commonwealth of Independent States summit in Minsk, Belarus on November 28, 2006. Officially, the theme of the summit was focused on "questions of the effectiveness and improvement of the commonwealth", thereby addressing complaints by some member states that the CIS had become little more than a forum. The summit coincided with NATO's 2006 Riga Summit in Latvia. References Commonwealth of Independent States 2000s in Minsk 2006 in Belarus Diplomatic conferences in Belarus 21st-century diplomatic conferences 2006 in international relations