{"id":3950,"date":"2019-06-11T18:34:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T18:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/?p=3950"},"modified":"2019-06-11T18:34:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T18:34:58","slug":"ashgabat-hosts-the-session-of-the-cis-council-of-the-heads-of-the-governments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/ashgabat-hosts-the-session-of-the-cis-council-of-the-heads-of-the-governments\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashgabat hosts the Session of the CIS Council of the Heads of the Governments"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3951\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Turkmenistan-Conference.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Turkmenistan-Conference.jpg 800w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Turkmenistan-Conference-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Turkmenistan-Conference-768x479.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Turkmenistan-Conference-696x434.jpg 696w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Turkmenistan-Conference-673x420.jpg 673w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>Ashgabat; The capital of Turkmenistan Ashgabat hosted the session of the CIS (Commonwealth\u00a0of Independent States) Council of the Heads of the Governments which was chaired by\u00a0President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on 31 May, 2019.<\/h4>\n<h4>\nAt the beginning of the session, President of Turkmenistan warmly greeted the heads\u00a0of the Governments of the CIS countries in Turkmenistan and expressed the gratitude to all\u00a0for the accepted invitation to convene the session in Ashgabat for discussion of current\u00a0subjects of cooperation under the Commonwealth.<\/h4>\n<h4>\nPresident of Turkmenistan noted that heads of the delegations, which are not member\u00a0of the Council, have relative authorities for taking decisions and informed that the Republic\u00a0of Moldova takes part in the session as observer.<\/h4>\n<h4>\nThen, floor was given to Chairman of the Executive Committee, Executive Secretary\u00a0of the CIS Sergey Lebedev, who presented relative information on organizational issues.<\/h4>\n<h4>\nAfter adoption of the agenda of the session and its regulation, Turkmen Leader<br \/>\nsuggested the participants of the meeting to share the opinions on current subjects of\u00a0economic cooperation under the CIS.<\/h4>\n<h4>\nHaving delivered their speeches, the heads of the delegations highly appreciated<br \/>\norganizational level of the Summit in Ashgabat.<\/h4>\n<h4>\nThey have also expressed the confidence that the session held under the chairing of\u00a0Turkmenistan in the CIS would serve to expansion of beneficial trade and economic\u00a0partnership between the CIS countries.<\/h4>\n<h4>It was mentioned that increment of trade, development of the relations in different<br \/>\ndirection on integrated basis, exchange of practice in industrial sector as well as stimulation\u00a0fruitful contacts in cultural and humanitarian spheres are current objectives of the present\u00a0time. Coordination of joint efforts in counteraction of modern challenges has been outlined\u00a0among one of the vectors of cooperation.<\/h4>\n<h4>There was also stressed that cooperation under\u00a0competent international organizations, especially under the UN and OSCE, where at present\u00a0time consolidation of peace and security are the main factors, is among priority directions\u00a0of the partnership between the Commonwealth countries.<\/h4>\n<h4>\nThe Head of Turkmen state noted that all country-members have actively prepared to\u00a0current meeting and expressed the confidence that it would have efficiency and success and\u00a0continued that regular session of the CIS Council of the Heads of the Governments, which\u00a0agenda includes number of important subjects is held according to agreed schedule.<\/h4>\n<h4>\nPresident of Turkmenistan spoke for the necessity of systematic and addressed<br \/>\ncollaboration in these spheres, development of joint projects oriented to strategic objectives\u00a0for bringing of the CIS countries to continental and intercontinental economic relations in\u00a0West \u2013 East and North \u2013 South directions. Turkmenistan stands for expansion of\u00a0cooperation horizons promoting the idea of the CIS cooperation in implementation of big\u00a0transport, energy, communication projects in the south, east and west of the Commonwealth\u00a0space, for which labour, resources, production and technological capabilities are available.<\/h4>\n<h4>\nTurkmen Leader also expressed the confidence that more focused collaboration of the\u00a0CIS countries is required in the world arena, at the fields of competent international\u00a0organizations. In this regard, back in October 2017, Turkmenistan proposed to activate the\u00a0contact of foreign departments of the Commonwealth and to develop middle-term action\u00a0programme for these purposes. The draft document has been developed. Its adoption is\u00a0planned at the next session of the Council of the Foreign Ministers of the CIS in Ashgabat\u00a0on October 10.<\/h4>\n<h4>\nThe President of Turkmenistan noted the currency of the participation of the<br \/>\nCommonwealth countries in the implementation of multilateral projects in energy sphere.<\/h4>\n<h4>\nAt first, this is about long-term supplies of energy carriers to neighbouring CIS regions in\u00a0eastern and southern directions \u2013 China, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. Numbers of the\u00a0Commonwealth countries are in the rank of the largest producers and suppliers of\u00a0hydrocarbons in Eurasia.<\/h4>\n<h4>\nIn 2019, as a chairing country of the CIS, Turkmenistan prepared number of cultural\u00a0events, which have been started already. Children and youth subjects, student and teacher\u00a0exchanges have to take an important place in development of cultural and humanitarian\u00a0cooperation. Turkmenistan considers for initiative role of the CIS Interstate Fund of\u00a0Humanitarian Cooperation in this case and is willing to render support and assistance to it.<\/h4>\n<h4>\nConcluding the session the Head of Turkmen state announced the decision of the<br \/>\nCouncil on appointment of Janat Saypoldayev as the First Deputy Head of the CIS<br \/>\nAntiterrorist Centre and wished him successes and fruitful work.<\/h4>\n<h4>\nSumming up the session, President of Turkmenistan expressed the confidence that the\u00a0potential of the CIS, which is based on talent and hard work of the nations, rich historical\u00a0experience, is huge and versatile. Therefore, the session of the CIS Council of the Heads of\u00a0the Governments in Ashgabat has demonstrated again active position of neutral\u00a0Turkmenistan in the subjects of development of versatile cooperation in the CIS space.<\/h4>\n<h4>State News Agency 10 June 2019<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashgabat; The capital of Turkmenistan Ashgabat hosted the session of the CIS (Commonwealth\u00a0of Independent States) Council of the Heads of the Governments which was chaired by\u00a0President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on 31 May, 2019. At the beginning of the session, President of Turkmenistan warmly greeted the heads\u00a0of the Governments of the CIS countries in Turkmenistan and expressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3952,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions\/3952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}