Azerbaijan attends meeting of CIS Economic Council

On September 23, Moscow hosted the 95th meeting of the CIS Economic Council, during which a wide range of issues of economic cooperation between the Commonwealth member countries was considered.

The meeting was attended by First Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Yagub Eyyubov, Deputy Prime Minister of Armenia Mher Grigoryan, Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Igor Petrishenko, First Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan Adylbek Kasymaliev, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Alexey Overchuk and others.

The heads of delegations exchanged views on topical issues of economic cooperation in the CIS, in particular, discussed the implementation of the List of joint response measures to emerging problems adopted at the June meeting of the Economic Council.

During the meeting, the issue “On the activities of the CIS Electric Power Council in 2019–2021” was approved, along with thedraft Agreement on cooperation between the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States in preventing and responding to emergencies in the field of public health of a sanitary and epidemiological nature, prepared by the Cooperation Council in the field of healthcare of the CIS in order to implement the Decision of the CIS Council of Heads of State dated May 28, 2021.

The drafts of the Concept of Scientific, Technical and Technological Cooperation of the CIS Member States and the Action Plan for its implementation were considered.

The next meeting of the CIS Economic Council will be held on December 9, 2022 in Moscow.