CIS council to sit in Minsk to discuss project to study foreshocks
MINSK. November 10. KAZINFORM The 17th session of the CIS intergovernmental council for surveying, using, and protecting subsurface resources will take place in Minsk on 13-15 November, the press service of the CIS Executive Committee told BelTA.
Participants of the session will discuss the fulfillment of the Ukrainian-Russian project designed to prepare and publish a geological map of the Azov Sea bottom and a project for joint hydrogeodynamic monitoring for the sake of studying earthquake precursors.
Apart from that, members of the Council will discuss the collection, storage, and provision of digital geological information, the management of geological processes in the CIS states, the improvement of geochemical methods for finding solid subsurface resources and hydrocarbons.
The session will also sum up the work done by geological services of the CIS states in 2012-2013. Participants of the session will discuss the progress in implementing a long-range plan for the joint work of the CIS states within the framework of the Council in 2011-2015 and the operation of the Council in 2011-2013. More than ten items are on the agenda of the session, BelTA reports.
The CIS intergovernmental council for surveying, using, and protecting subsurface resources was founded in 1997. The main tasks include determining priority avenues of cooperation, the coordination and pursuance of a coordinated policy for studying, surveying, and using mineral raw materials. The priority avenues of work include the establishment and development of the market of mineral raw materials and their derivatives, including by reviving mutually beneficial manufacturing cooperation ties between economic operators taking into account new legal and economic conditions. Apart from that, the Council is in charge of working out and implementing joint programs and work in the area of occupational safety, prevention and alleviation of consequences of major emergencies at enterprises involved in the extraction and processing of mineral raw materials.
Representatives of interested ministries and agencies, government and public organizations and enterprises of the states parties to the agreement, charter and industry-specific bodies of the Commonwealth of Independent States, international organizations can be invited to attend sessions of the Council as observers or experts.