THE REGULAR SESSION OF CIS YOUTH AFFAIRS COUNCIL HELD IN ASTANA

ARMENPRESS
Nov 3, 2009

ASTANA, NOVEMBER 3, ARMENPRESS: The regular session of CIS Youth
Affairs Council with the participation of the representatives of
the executive committee of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and CIS was held in Astana.

Press service of CIS executive committee reported that the session
participants discussed the project on the strategy of international
youth cooperation of CIS states and mainly approved it taking into
consideration the remarks and proposals put forward by CIS states,
as well as the recommendations of the fourth forum of creative and
scientific intellectuals of CIS states, which was held in Kishinev. A
decision was adopted to submit that project to the discussion of CIS
Council of Heads of Governments.

The council paid attention also to the implementation process of
the program on the main preparation and celebration events dedicated
to the 65th anniversary of the victory in World War II (1941-1945),
which has been confirmed by the decision adopted by CIS Council of
Heads of States October 10, 2008.

Russian Deputy Minister of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy O. A.

Rozhnov has been elected chairman of Youth Affairs Council. The
regular session of the council is intended to conduct March-April,
2010 in Azerbaijan.