Session of CIS Council of Prime Ministers finished in Astana
15:21, 22 May 2009
ASTANA. May 22. KAZINFORM /Muratbek Makulbekov/ The CIS Council of Prime Ministers has finished its sitting in the Astana Palace of Independence today. Chairman of the Council Zinaida Grechanaya said at a press conference that the Council had adopted decisions on more than 18 problems in different fields of cooperation.
?First of all, we have discussed and approved an Action plan on realization of the first stage of the 2020 CIS Economic Development Strategy (2009-2011). We have adopted several amendments to the Strategy of Cooperation of the CIS member countries in the sphere of information and the Action plan on realization of this strategy till 2010 in order to bring them into compliance with the demands of time?, Z. Grechanaya said.
According to her, actionplans in humanitarian cooperation for 2009-2010 and a plan on further development of the common educational space and cooperation in education for the period till 2010 were considered.
Z. Grechanaya also pointed out importance of the Council?s decision on establishment of a jubilee medal ?65th anniversary of the Victory in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War?.