MINSK, 25 March (BelTA) – Experts of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States have agreed the final draft of the action plan that will be implemented in 2021-2023 in order to realize the strategy on advancing cooperation in the area of physical training and sport. An additional session of the expert group took place on 25 March using videoconference technologies, the press service of the CIS Executive Committee told BelTA.
The document is supposed to be signed at a session of the CIS Foreign Ministers Council in Moscow on 2 April.
The draft plan contains ten chapters that list events meant to develop all kinds of sport, support the club-based system of physical training and health promotion, support national kinds of sport of the CIS member states and the high-performance sport, Olympic and Paralympic movements, the improvement of the training of national teams.
Apart from that, the document provides for scientific, methodical, medical, and biological support for this sphere. It provides for preventing and fighting the use of doping in sport, for improving the system of evaluation of qualification of coach personnel, for developing the relevant physical infrastructure.
Certain chapters of the document are dedicated to informatization and the formation of a positive image of the sphere of physical training and sport in mass media, to sport propaganda as an important part of a healthy lifestyle.
Representatives of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly, the interstate television and radio company Mir, and the CIS Executive Committee took part in the session. Experts of the CIS states polished and agreed the draft action plan taking into account the remarks and proposals submitted by the member states.
