Tashkent to host CIS Foreign Ministers Council April 5

PanARMENIAN.Net - A meeting of the CIS Foreign Ministers Council will take place in Tashkent on April 5.

The foreign ministers of the Commonwealth will discuss a wide range of issues concerning integration cooperation in the international policy. The participants of the meeting are expected to study a number of draft documents aimed at strengthening interstate cooperation in humanitarian activities, security and other areas.

The ministers will look into CIS draft agreements on a protocol on introducing amendments to the agreement on cooperation in the formation of the CIS common education space of 17 January 1997. Besides, the participants of the meeting will discuss the issue of announcing the year 2014 the Year of Tourism in the CIS.

The meeting will also focus in the CIS draft cooperation concept against IT crimes, an agreement on the formation and application of special rapid response groups of specialists of the border agencies to the border security threats at the external borders of the CIS states.

Apart from that, the CIS foreign ministers will consider the implementation of a plan for multilevel ministerial consultations in the Commonwealth in 2012 and the similar plan for 2013 as well as the draft provisions on the advisory council of the heads of the consular services of the CIS Foreign Ministries, CIS media report citing CIS Executive Committee press service.