DUSHANBE, June 8, 2016, Asia-Plus — A meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of Government that took place in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, yesterday has resulted in signing of 16 documents.
In all, more than twenty issues aimed at promoting further expansion of cooperation between the CIS member nations have been tabled to the meeting’s agenda. Major part of these issues reportedly concerned economic cooperation between the CIS member nations.
The meeting participants included prime ministers of Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Moldova and Tajikistan, as well as deputy prime ministers Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Ukrainian delegation did not attend the meeting.
The meeting participants, in particular, discussed issues related to improving effectiveness of functioning of free economic zones, expansion of innovative cooperation, movement of radioactive material, preservation of agricultural bio diversities, and cooperation in the field of chemical industry.
They also discussed and approved the document on holding of the population census in the CIS member nations in 2020.
Besides, the meeting participants discussed and approved decisions on granting status of basic organizations to a number of CIS educational institutions on training specialists for work with youth, demining specialists for the armed forces, specialists on development of youth entrepreneurship, military metrology, etc.
The meeting participants adopted a concept of cooperation between the CIS member nations in the field of chemical industry.
They also discussed and endorsed decisions on making amendments to the single budget for the CIS institutions.
The next meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of Government will take place in Minsk, Belarus on October 28, 2016.
The CIS Council of Heads of Government was established on December 21, 1991. The council is the second major body in the CIS after the CIS Council of Heads of State, and consists of the prime ministers of all member states. The council coordinates the CIS member states” cooperation in economic, social and other areas of their common interests, and adopts corresponding decisions through consensus. The CIS Council of Heads of Government convenes twice a year, normally in winter and autumn. Extraordinary meetings are summoned on the initiative of the government of a member state.
Established on December 8, 1991 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional organization. It now consists of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine. Georgia pulled out of the organization in 2009.
