DUSHANBE, May 12, Asia-Plus  -- Dushanbe will host the 39th session of the council of heads of communications administrations of the Regional Communications Commonwealth (RCC), Olim Yatimov, the head of the department for international ties analysis within the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MoTC), said in an interview with Asia-Plus.

According to him, the session will be held from May 22-23 and the 13th session of the CIS coordination council for informatization will be held on sidelines of the RCC session in the Tajik capital.

 The coordination council’s meeting participants include representatives from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan, and representatives of Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, and Slovenia will attend the meeting as observers, the MoTC official said.    

The coordination council aims to consider issues related to implementation of the strategy of cooperation in the field of communications as well as a plan of actions for implementation of the strategy.

Regional Communications Commonwealth (RCC) was set up on December 17, 1991 in Moscow by the Heads of Communications Administrations (CA) of CIS states.  The organization is dedicated to promote cooperation among CIS states in the field of telecommunications and postal communication based on their free will, principles of mutual respect and sovereignty.  In October 1992, a meeting of the CIS heads of government in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan resulted in signing of an agreement on coordination of interstate relations in the field of postal and tele-communications, which vested the RCC with the authority of an interstate coordinating body in the field of tele- and postal communications. The RCC principle tasks are to extend mutually beneficial cooperation between the RCC CAs on development of communications networks and facilities; coordination in the field of scientific and technical policy, radio-spectrum management, tariff policies for communication services and settlements, staff training; interaction with the international organizations in the field of communications and informatization, information interchange, etc.  The Supreme organ of the RCC, the Board of the Heads of the Communications Administrations, carries out its activities pursuant to the Regulations. The decisions of the Board are taken by common consent (consensus) of its members.