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MINSK, 25 August (BelTA) - The CIS Council of Foreign Ministers is set to consider 16 issues regarding various aspects of interstate cooperation at a meeting to be held in Dushanbe on 2 September, BelTA was informed in the press service of the CIS Executive Committee.
The CIS Foreign Ministers will discuss the draft assessment report “Achievements of the CIS for 20 Years and Tasks for the Future”, which contains an overall assessment of the two decades of development of the CIS, analyzes the results of cooperation of the states-members of the CIS in the economic and humanitarian areas, security and other sectors. The final part defines the objectives of the CIS in the future. It is expected that the draft document will be submitted to the CIS Council of the Heads of State on 3 September.
The Foreign Ministers are also scheduled to consider a draft statement of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers “On ensuring the complementary and mutually beneficial nature of integration”. The draft statement notes the increasing role of regional organizations in global politics and economy and more pronounced integration trends in various regions of the world, including the vast Eurasian space. The CIS declares readiness for a dialogue with the European Union and other integration organizations in order to exchange experience and discuss ways towards harmonious, complementary and mutually beneficial integration and cooperation, while respecting each other's interests.
In what concerns humanitarian cooperation, the CIS Foreign Ministers will discuss draft agreements to perpetuate the memory about the courage and heroism the CIS member nations during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, and also the concept of coordinated social and demographic policy in the CIS countries. The concept has been developed to coordinate projects and programs that the CIS states design and implement in the social and demographic sectors as well as for more efficient use of the integration potential for the benefit of the CIS development.
The meeting of the CIS Foreign Ministers will also focus on further cooperation in security, including documents regulating the relations of the CIS member states in counteracting illegal migration and the procedure of handing over the samples of drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors.
The CIS Foreign Ministers will consider draft protocols on amending the previously adopted documents in the CIS in order to bring them in line with the general regulations on sectoral cooperation bodies.
Among others issues on the agenda are draft decisions on the implementation of the action plan of the CIS further development concept, distribution of quota positions in the CIS Executive Committee, draft governmental agreement between the Russian Federation and the CIS on the terms of presence of the coordination service of the Council of the Border Troops Commanders in the Russian Federation.
