MINSK, 31 January (BelTA) - The Commonwealth of Independent States is developing a draft plan of priority action in humanitarian cooperation for 2023-2024. A groups of experts met at the CIS headquarters in Minsk on 28 January, BelTA learned from the press service of the CIS Executive Committee.
The meeting was attended by representatives of Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, the Secretariat of the CIS IPA Council, the Interstate Fund for Humanitarian Cooperation and the CIS Executive Committee. The experts considered the proposals from the stakeholders. The meeting participants generally agreed on the draft plan, taking into account the proposals of the CIS member states and the relevant draft decisions of the CIS Ministerial Council and the CIS Council of Heads of Government. At the same time, the participants noted the need to finalize a number of points of the draft plan by their sponsors.
After the final approval by experts, the draft plan of priority action in the field of humanitarian cooperation of the CIS member states for 2023-2024 will be submitted to the upcoming meetings of the CIS Ministerial Council and the CIS Council of Heads of Government in accordance with the established procedure.
The document shall coordinate multilateral cooperation in the fields of education, science, culture, information and mass communications, book publishing, book distribution and printing, sport and a healthy lifestyle, tourism, and youth affairs.
Cooperation in humanitarian affairs in accordance with approved plans has proved effective. This practice was launched in 2008 at the initiative of the CIS Council for Humanitarian Cooperation.
The new document consists of 10 sections, and more than 300 events. The plan suggests declaring 2023 in the CIS as the Year of the Russian Language as a Language of Interethnic Communication.
