DUSHANBE, May 29, 2015, Asia-Plus -- A session of the CIS Council of Heads of Government took place in the resort village of Burabay in Kazakhstan on May 29.

The agenda reportedly included a wide range of issues related to integration cooperation within the CIS region.

The meeting participants, in particular, adopted the plan of actions on solving topical issues in the financial and economic sphere and endorsed the strategy to ensure safety of international traffic in the territories of the CIS.

The parties also discussed and endorsed the concept of inter-region and cross-border cooperation designed for period until 2020 and package of measures to implement this concept.

Besides, the heads of government approved the concept of formation and development of the interstate system of training and retraining of personnel for intellectual property services.

The meeting participants signed an agreement on mutual recognition of test results in metrological certification and an agreement on enhancing qualifications of teachers in the CIS institutions of general education.

In all, 15 documents were signed during the meeting in the resort village of Burabay in Kazakhstan.

Major-General Oleg Zemskov (Belarus) was appointed deputy head of the CIS Anti-Terrorist Center (ATC-CIS).

The meeting participants included prime ministers from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia and Tajikistan.  Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan were represented by vice-premiers and Ukraine was represented by its charge d''affaires in Kazakhstan.

The next meeting of the CIS Heads of Government will take place in Dushanbe, Tajikistan in October 2015.

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.