CIS summit in Minsk to ponder 17 draft documents
MINSK. Oct 10 (Interfax) - Seventeen documents aimed at fostering interstate cooperation in humanitarian issues, security and other fields will be pondered at the CIS summit in Minsk on October 10, a source in the CIS Executive Committee press service told Interfax.
The sides will consider a draft program of cooperation between CIS member countries in the deterrence of illegal migration in 2015-2019, the press service said. This document stipulates the elaboration and enforcement of a coordinated migration policy, the development of an international legal basis for cooperation and the improvement and reconciliation of national laws of CIS countries. The program suggests improved methods of border and migration control in CIS countries and joint and/or coordinated preventive, investigative and special-purpose operations. "The document contains a broad range of measures towards the improvement and development of the legal groundwork for cooperation between CIS member states in this sphere," the press service emphasized.
Draft documents related to security include an agreement on the procedure for forming and using joint groups of specialists (experts) from border departments in the rapid response to security threats along external borders of CIS countries, a statement on the preservation and strengthening of the international system of control over the turnover of narcotic substances, a concept of cooperation in the deterrence of trafficking in human beings, and a protocol adjusting the agreement on the establishment of the Council of Heads of Financial Intelligence Services of CIS Countries dated December 5, 2012.
The most significant documents in the humanitarian sphere are a draft address of presidents to peoples of CIS countries and the international public on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and a draft decision on the implementation of the interstate program "Cultural Capitals of the Commonwealth" in Russia (Voronezh) and Tajikistan (Kulob) in 2015. A draft document declaring the year 2016 the Year of Education in the CIS will also be considered.
A review of CIS agreements comprising the unified register of legal acts and other documents will be singled out in the field of legal support to the CIS activity. There will be a number of organizational items on the agenda as well, the CIS Executive Committee press service said.
