MINSK, 28 May (BelTA) – The CIS Heads of Government council signed a package of documents on the development of cooperation in Minsk, BelTA has learned.
Reports on three documents were heard during the delegations-level talks. The first one is a medium-term plan of joint action of the CIS member states to counter the spread of infectious diseases. According to the press service of the CIS Executive Committee, the plan provides for more than 20 activities in five areas of cooperation. These include joint research on the development of immunobiological drugs and diagnostic drugs on the most relevant infectious diseases for the CIS countries, joint field studies aimed at updating information on the state of natural hotbeds of plague and other infectious diseases and joint scientific work to develop algorithms, standard operating procedures, technologies of joint response to public health emergencies.
The heads of government heard a report on the agreement on sanitary protection of the CIS states. The document stipulates that the parties will carry out the necessary measures to ensure sanitary protection of the CIS in respect of for diseases associated with emergencies or their possible outbreak. Such activities will also be carried out with regard to goods subject to sanitary and epidemiological supervision (control).
The CIS heads of government discussed an agreement on cooperation in promoting employment. Its goal is to develop cooperation among the CIS countries in working out coordinated approaches to solving problems and removing barriers to the development of the common labor market, promoting employment, reducing unemployment and ensuring the rights of citizens to freedom of movement and employment.
A number of documents were signed by the heads of delegations without discussion. They included the documents regulating cooperation in preventing and combating the use of false trademarks and geographical indications, preventing and combating foot-and-mouth disease, and also cooperation in geodesy, cartography, cadastre, and remote sensing.
The participants of the meeting approved a concept of cooperation between government (executive) bodies responsible for the management of state material reserves in the CIS member states for the period through 2030 and the plan of main activities to implement it.
The heads of government also signed the documents on personnel appointments. Leonid Anfimov has been appointed First Deputy Chairman of the CIS Executive committee and Beketzhan Zhumakhanov, Ilhom Nematov and Denis Trefilov have been named deputy chairpersons of the CIS Executive Committee. Vladimir Sokolin has been approved as Chairman of the CIS Interstate Committee for a one year term.
