MOSCOW - More than 20 issues, including different aspects of cooperation as part of integration processes within the CIS, have been included in the agenda of a meeting of CIS member states' prime ministers in Yalta, Ukraine, on September 28.
“Among other topics, the sides plan to debate a 2012-2014 action plan
to implement the CIS interstate innovative cooperation program for the
period up to 2020. A strategy of CIS states’ cooperation in building and
promoting their information society and an appropriate action plan for
the period up to 2015,” CIS Executive Committee spokesman Vladimir
Nikanorov told Interfax.
The session is also expected to address Uzbekistan’s participation in
the Free Trade Zone Treaty, as well as the state of competition in CIS
member states’ retail chain stores.
The prime ministers will be informed of the progress made in
establishing a venue for permanent exhibitions of CIS member countries
on the premises of the All Russian Exhibition Center in Moscow.
A concept of the Mir 24 TV news channel will be discussed as well.
The CIS premiers will also decide whether to grant the status of CIS
framework organizations to the CIS International Innovative Center of
Nanotechnologies, the Russian government’s University of Finance and the
National University of Ukraine’s State Tax Service.
Other topics on the meeting’s agenda include the formation of a CIS
regional consultative group within the Financial Stability Board, which
was set up by the G20 member countries in 2009 to coordinate efforts of
the national financial authorities at the international level, as well
as the functioning of international organizations in charge of
regulating and supervising the financial sector.
