Accords on integrated currency market, anti-terror services signed at CIS summit
ASHGABAT. Dec 5 (Interfax) - Heads of state signed various documents during a Commonwealth of Independent States summit on Wednesday, including an agreement to set up an integrated currency market for the CIS, an accord on development guidelines for the combined air defense, and a logistics deal for anti-terrorism services.
Other documents signed at Wednesday's meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of State were a decision to set up a council bringing together the financial intelligence chiefs of CIS states and regulations on the office of chairman of the CIS economic court, an Interfax correspondent reported from the summit venue in Ashgabat, capital of Turkmenistan.
The set of documents also included a progress report on the implementation of a 2011 CIS summit agreement that set communications and information technology as a key area of economic cooperation between member countries in 2012.
The Council of Heads of State also approved a plan of measures to put into practice a 2007 agreement on mutual assistance in dealing with frontier incidents and endorsed regulations on the office of head of the CIS Anti-Terrorism Center and on the office of chairman of the Air Defense Coordinating Committee of the CIS Defense Ministers Council.
The heads of state declared 2013 the "Year of Ecological Culture and Environmental Protection in the CIS."
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