Opening ceremony for CIS Forum of Creative and Academic Intellectuals

MINSK. September 24. KAZINFORM - The 8th CIS Forum of Creative and Academic Intellectuals will officially open at the National Library of Belarus on 24 September, Kazinform has learnt from BelTA.
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The forum will be held under the motto “2013 is the Year of Ecological Culture and Environmental Protection in the CIS”. Partaking in the event will be delegations from 10 CIS member states: representatives of creative and academic intellectuals in education, culture, healthcare, ecology and nature protection activities, mass media, humanitarian activity. It is expected that Belarus will welcome over 300 people from the whole post-Soviet space.

The forum will include sections on education, youth policy, information policy and mass media, tourism, cultural cooperation and preservation of the historical and cultural heritage, healthcare development.

A joint session of the CIS Humanitarian Cooperation Council and the Board of the CIS Interstate Humanitarian Cooperation Fund will take place in Minsk as part of the forum to discuss the progress made in 2013 and prospects for 2014. The program of the forum will include meetings of the Council of the Eurasian Universities Association, the CIS Conservatory and Music Academy Rectors Council, a coordination meeting of heads of CIS humanitarian cooperation bodies.

On 24 September the BRSM Youth Union will hold an presentation of environmental projects “100 Ideas for Belarus” at the Department of Geography of Belarusian State University. The exposition will include projects aimed at the modernization of the domestic waste recovery system, waste water treatment and others. First Secretary of the Central Committee of the BRSM Youth Union Igor Buzovsky is expected to take part in one of the sections of the forum to tell about the project “100 Ideas for Belarus”.

The forum will close on 26 September. The organizers of the forum are the CIS Interstate Humanitarian Cooperation Fund, the Government of Belarus under the auspices of the President of Belarus, the CIS Executive Committee, the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the Minsk City Hall.

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