Tajik Minister, Russian Official Talk CIS Premiers’ Session Agenda

TAJIK MINISTER, RUSSIAN OFFICIAL TALK CIS PREMIERS’ SESSION AGENDA

Asia-Plus news agency website
24 May 06

Dushanbe, 24 May: The agenda of the coming session of CIS prime
ministers was discussed in Dushanbe today [24 May] during a working
meeting between Tajik Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov and CIS Executive
Secretary Vladimir Rushaylo, a source in the Tajik Foreign Ministry
has told Asia-Plus.

We would recall that the session of the council of heads of government
of the CIS member states will take place in Dushanbe on 25 May. The
agenda includes 25 issues.

The participants will discuss a treaty on setting up an interstate fund
for humanitarian cooperation, a draft convention on border cooperation
and the work of the [CIS] interstate council for hydrometeorology.

In all, 17 documents will be signed without discussion.

[Passage omitted: known details about documents to be signed]

Also expected to be signed are a document on assigning to the Russian
state library, a federal institution, the status of the main body for
cooperation between CIS member states in the field of librarianship,
and a document on assigning to Zhukovskiy Air Force Engineering
Academy the status of the principal training centre for military
metrology specialists of the CIS member states.

The CIS heads of government will also consider [the issues related
to] conducting the next regular session of the council of CIS heads
of government, as well as [appointing] deputies of the executive
secretary and the chair of the council.

At the council’s forthcoming session in Dushanbe Azerbaijan, Armenia,
Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan will be
represented by prime ministers; Russia, Uzbekistan and Ukraine by
deputy prime ministers and Turkmenistan by its ambassador.

All the participants in the session, about 200 of them, will arrive
this afternoon. Tajik President Emomali Rahmonov is expected to receive
the heads of the delegations in the morning of 25 May, ahead of the
session of the council of heads of government of CIS member states.

This afternoon Rushaylo is also expected to meet Rahmonov. The
sides intend to discuss cooperation among CIS member countries and
integration processes within the framework of this structure.