Video conferencing to help resolve legal disputes between Belarus, Kazakhstan

NSK. December 22. KAZINFORM Disputes between economic entities of Belarus and Kazakhstan will be dealt with by the Supreme Economic Court using the video conferencing technology, BelTA learned from Yevgeny Yerokhin, advisor for information and legal matters of the Presiding Judge of the Supreme Economic Court.

He reminded that once the Single Economic Space is launched on 1 January 2012, cooperation between economic entities of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan will be more active and various legal situations and disputes may arise. "In order to avoid making people to go to Kazakhstan or to Belarus to attend a court session, video conferencing will be used to deal with legal disputes," said the source.

According to BelTA, the technical capability to do just that was confirmed by an international video conferencing session between the Supreme Economic Court of Belarus and the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan. During the session top executives of the court systems of Belarus and Kazakhstan discussed advantages and prospects of dealing with economic disputes. Matters concerning the operation of the council of presiding judges of arbitrage courts, economic courts, and other courts that have to deal with economic disputes were discussed.

The two sides also approved the concept for creating a digital Eurasian legal network for civil and administrative cases for the sake of raising the effectiveness of cooperation between the CIS member states and their legal systems, said Yevgeny Yerokhin.

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