CIS Heads of State Council's session chaired by N. Nazarbayev began in Burabay
Presidents of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan are participating in the session as well as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Moldova Andrei Galbur, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkmenistan Satlyk Satlykov, temporary charge d'affaires of Ukraine in Kazakhstan Yuri Lazebnik and Executive Secretary of the CIS Sergei Lebedev.
The session of the CIS Heads of State council will focus on the documents dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the UN and the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
Special attention will be paid to the issues of cooperation in the security sphere. The Heads of State will sign several international agreements in the law-enforcement sphere and in the sphere of liquidation of the consequences of the emergency situations.
The concept of military cooperation for 2020 will be adopted at the session as well as the program of cooperation in strengthening of the border security for 2016-2020 and some other documents.
The Heads of State will also attach special attention to future humanitarian cooperation. In particular, the participants are expected to discuss the implementation of the intergovernmental program titled "Cultural capital cities of the CIS". The city of Dashoguz is planned to be announced the cultural capital city of the CIS in 2016 at the session today.