DUSHANBE, July 11, 2008, Asia-Plus – The Kyrgyz capital city of Bishkek will host a meeting of heads of the CIS state-run organizations responsible for science and technology in the fall, Ms, Maria Gutsalo, a spokeswoman for the CIS Executive Committee, said.
According to her, the decision on this subject was made at a two-day meeting that is ending in Minsk, Belarus today. The Minsk meeting discussed preparations for the session that will be held in Bishkek.
The Bishkek session is expected to develop proposals on expansion of cooperation among the CIS states in fundamental and applied sciences.
As it had been reported earlier, the CIS summit that was held in Dushanbe on October 5, 2007 made a special decision on an appeal by the Council of International Association of Academies of Sciences requiring development of common scientific and educational space that promotes consolidation of efforts on the most topical problems of development of fundamental and applied sciences.
Under this decision, the CIS executive committee and the state holding the rotting CIS presidency are to organize the session to discuss ways of expanding cooperation among the CIS states in fundamental and applied sciences. Kyrgyzstan will assume the rotating CIS chairmanship and Bishkek will host this meeting in the autumn.
During the Minsk meeting, it was noted that further development of common educational, scientific, informational, and cultural spaces is the main task of humanitarian cooperation among the CIS states, Gutsalo said.
According to her, Turatbek Omorov, Vice-President of Kyrgyzstan’s National Academy of Sciences, who has presided over the Minsk meeting, pointed to the necessity of establishing the CIS body for cooperation in the field of fundamental sciences that would coordinate and determine priorities of cooperation among the CIS states in this sphere as well as solve issues related to financing of joint projects and programs.
