General Secretary of the CIS

General Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States
Генеральный секретарь Содружества Независимых Государств
Incumbent Sergey Lebedev since 5 October 2007
Executive Secretariat
Style	His Excellency
Member of	Council of Heads of State of the CIS
Seat	17 Kirov Street, Minsk, Belarus
Term length	Three years
Precursor	President of the Soviet Union
Inaugural holder	Ivan Korotchenya
Formation	14 May 1994
Deputy	First Deputy General Secretary

The General Secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States (formerly known as the Executive Secretary) is the head of the CIS Executive Committee, the central body which has served the CIS since its establishment in 1991. The headquarters of the secretary-general, as with the committee, is in Minsk, Belarus.