CIS foreign ministers council to meet in Moscow tomorrow

Published: 23 August 2005 y., Tuesday

  A regular meeting of the Foreign Ministers Council will take place Tuesday, August 23, CIS executive committee has informed KZ-today correspondent.

The foreign ministers will consider a number of documents to be discussed by the CIS Council of Heads of State on August 26 in Kazan.

CIS vice foreign ministers are meeting in Moscow today. The today's session agenda includes issues of improving and reforming the CIS bodies. It is also planned to regard an agreement on humanitarian co-operation between the CIS member states. Besides, a number of documents requiring completion to be submitted for consideration by the foreign ministers will be reviewed.

During the today's meeting the vice ministers will also consider texts of appeals from the CIS heads of state to the peoples of CIS member states and to the world community on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Chernobyl tragedy and the 60th anniversary of the UN. 

Šaltinis: Kazakhstan today
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