CIS Economic Council to meet in Moscow on May 23

19.05.2005, 21.20

MINSK, May 19 (Itar-Tass) – The CIS Economic Council will discuss a
draft concept of the creation of a single electric power market at
its meeting in Moscow on May 23.

Ruslan Yesin, the deputy head of the Belarusian Foreign Ministry
information department, told a briefing on Thursday that the
participants in the meeting would discuss a draft agreement on the
fundamentals of harmonization of technical regulations of the CIS
countries as well as the operation and prospects of development of
the Commonwealth’s Inter-State Statistics Committee.

Besides, the Prime-Tass economic agency reports that the CIS economic
forum will consider problems of creation of favourable legal, economic
and organizational conditions for the expansion of leasing activities
in the CIS.

The leaders of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine signed an Agreement on
creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on December
8, 1991. Under a protocol to that agreement, signed on December 21,
1991, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova,
Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine formed the
CIS on equal conditions. Georgia joined the CIS in December 1993.