ASHGABAT, May 24. /TASS/. The Common of Independent States (CIS) surpassed the European Union in terms of GDP growth of its member states in 2023 multi-fold, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said.

"CIS members’ GDP grew by 3.8% last year, whereas [GDP] in European Union countries [grew] by less than half a percent," he said at a meeting with CIS colleagues.

Mishustin stressed the necessity to continue coordinated work on boosting the economic and production potential of the Commonwealth, as well as form new interaction mechanisms.