DUSHANBE, September 16, 2008, Asia-Plus — A joint session of the CIS Humanitarian Cooperation Council (HCC) and the CIS Interstate Humanitarian Cooperation Fund (IHCF) will be held in Dushanbe tomorrow evening ahead of the Third Forum of the Creative and Scientific Intelligentsia of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), which is due in Dushanbe on September 18-20.
According to Davlat Nazriyev, head of the MFA information department, the intelligentsia forum will be held at the Varzob governmental residence Pugus under the motto of “Through Dialogue of Cultures and Tolerance to Mutual Enrichment and Progress and the CIS Peoples.”
President Emomali Rahmon will address the forum on September 19. The CIS Tree of Friendship gold medal, instituted by the CIS Parliamentary Assembly and the Interstate TV and Radio Company MIR, will be bestowed on President Rahmon. The Assembly and MIR have honored Emomali Rahmon for his contributions to formation of integration space for the CIS states.
The third forum of the CIS intelligentsia is dedicated to continue dialogue on the most topical issues of humanitarian cooperation within the CIS area. Representatives of the CIS intelligentsia are expected to address one of the essential matters – national languages and national literature of the CIS countries. The forum participants will also discuss the problem of translation, which presents itself not only in business correspondence but also in belles letters.
Meetings of young researchers working in exact and natural sciences are supposed to be held on sidelines of the forum. Besides, practical matters of organizing education within the CIS area will be discussed at the forum.
The award ceremony for winners of the international poetic award “2008 Community of Debuts” and the official opening of Russian Center of Russia’s Russkiy Mir (Russian World) National Foundation at Russia-Tajik Slavic University (RTSU) will held on sidelines of the forum in Dushanbe.
