Agenda of session of Council of CIS Prime Ministers discussed in Astana

Astana. May 21. Kazakhstan Today - The questions of the agenda of the forthcoming session of the Council of Prime Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) were discussed during the meeting of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Karim Masimov, and the chairman of the Executive Committee - the CIS Executive Secretary, Sergey Lebedev, the agency reports citing the message of the prime minister's press service of Kazakhstan.

According to the press service, the meeting participants discussed the questions of the agenda of the session of the CIS Council of Prime Ministers, which will take place on May, 22nd, 2009 in Astana.

According to the press service of the CIS Executive Committee, S. Lebedev informed on May, 13th in Minsk that at the forthcoming meeting the Prime Ministers will discuss joint measures on overcoming the world financial and economic crisis.

The Prime Ministers in Astana will inform each other on the financial and economic situation in their states and the measures on minimization of the negative consequences of the crisis undertaken by them at this stage.

The chairman of the CIS Executive Committee also informed that the important place in the agenda of the session of the Council of Prime Ministers will be the questions of humanitarian cooperation.

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