CIS plenipotentiaries meet in Minsk for 1st time in 2015
Foreign Minister of Belarus Vladimir Makei and Chairman of the Executive Committee, CIS Executive Secretary Sergei Lebedev took part in the meeting.
The CIS Plenipotentiaries Council is headed by permanent representative of Kazakhstan in the CIS Ergali Bulegenov. Delivering a speech at the meeting S. Lebedev expressed his confidence that the CIS member states would make their contributions to implementation of the concept of the presidency. The CIS Plenipotentiaries Council and the Executive Committee, in turn, will render all-round assistance in this sphere, the press service of the Executive Committee of the CIS informs. The participants of the meeting approved the Council's action plan for 2015. The plan embraces almost all the main agendas of the meetings of the CIS supreme bodies as well as their results, the implementation of the documents adopted in the CIS, the analysis of the activity of the sectoral cooperation bodies. The plan includes the activities and preparations for celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the 25th anniversary of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The participants of the meeting also considered the progress made in terms of fulfillment of the instructions given by the CIS Heads of State Council, the CIS Heads of Government Council and the CIS Foreign Ministers Council to the CIS bodies in 2011-2013. Over that period the CIS Heads of State Council held four meetings, the CIS Heads of Government Council held six meetings and the CIS Foreign Ministers Council held six meetings. There were adopted 71 documents which contained 83 instructions to the CIS bodies, there were developed measures on their implementation with the progress considered at the meetings of those bodies.