DUSHANBE, May 25, 2015, Asia-Plus – A session of the CIS Council of Heads of Government will take place at the Burabay resort in Kazakhstan on May 29.

The session is expected to discuss more than 20 draft cooperation documents, a source in Tajik Government told Asia-Plus in an interview.

The session participants will also outlined priorities of cooperation between the CSI nations in the field of forestry and timber industry in the coming ten years.

They will also discuss a draft concept of inter-region and cross-border cooperation designed for period until 2020 and a draft plan of actions for implementation of this concept.

While in Burabay, Tajik Prime Minister Qohir Rasoulzoda is expected to hold bilateral meeting with a number of his counterparts from the CIS nations, the source said.

The CIS Council of Heads of Government was established on December 21, 1991.  The council is the second major body in the CIS after the CIS Council of Heads of State, and consists of the prime ministers of all member states.  The council coordinates the CIS member states'' cooperation in economic, social and other areas of their common interests, and adopts corresponding decisions through consensus.  The CIS Council of Heads of Government convenes twice a year, normally in winter and autumn. Extraordinary meetings are summoned on the initiative of the government of a member state.

Established on December 8, 1991 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional organization.  It now consists of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.  Georgia pulled out of the organization in 2009.