MINSK, 23 January (BelTA) – The first session of the CIS Plenipotentiaries Council in 2018 will be held in Minsk on 30 January, BelTA learned from the press service of the CIS Executive Committee.
The CIS plenipotentiaries will draft the agenda for the next session of the CIS Foreign Ministers Council due in Minsk on 6 April. In particular, the agenda will be dedicated to political interaction and will include documents on cooperation in the fight against cyber crime, money laundering, terrorism financing, and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The CIS foreign ministers will also consider draft documents on education and youth policy.
The plenipotentiaries will also discuss prospects for expanding the CIS legal framework in 2018 and agree on heads of CIS observation missions to monitor the upcoming presidential elections in Russia and the parliamentary elections in Turkmenistan.
The meeting will be attended by Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee, CIS Executive Secretary Sergei Lebedev.
