Friday, 19 November 2010
Tigran Sargsyan attends CIS Council of Heads of Government meeting
The Prime Minister-led government delegation attended today the meeting of CIS Council of Heads of Government in Saint Petersburg. The meeting agenda featured over twenty items.
The meeting passed a decision on the preparative stage for the drafting of a free trade agreement which still has to be ratified by the heads of State.
The heads of government discussed the level of competition in the sphere of telephonic communications and the interstate cooperation programs in field of innovations until the year 2020. They also looked at ways of developing, expanding and applying mutually compatible medical scanning systems in the CIS-member countries, as well as providing legal protection for intellectual property. The meeting next passed in review those humanitarian programs scheduled for the period 2010-2012 and discussed the possibility of holding an interstate exhibition dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the CIS. Armenia will join it next June.
The heads of government made a point of implementing joint programs aimed at generating and using energy resources until 2020. They also discussed product security, macroeconomic performance and other issues.
Armenia was said to have carried out a total of 32 projects under the interstate humanitarian cooperation program in 2008-2010, with 9 events held during this year alone, including the CIS youth games of last June 26-July 2 and the 4th congress of translators from CIS and Baltic States.
The meeting discussed the development of a joint economic strategy to be pursued by the year 2020, as well as questions bearing on the single CIS budget. The heads of government took the time to look at some arrangements of mutual interest.
