CIS Council of Heads of Government to meet in Minsk in May 2013

YALTA, 28 September (BelTA) – The CIS Council of Heads of Government will next meet in Minsk on 31 May 2013, Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee Sergei Lebedev said at the meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of Government in Yalta on 28 September.

In his words, the Yalta meeting considered 22 issues.

According to Ukrainian Premier Nikolai Azarov, one of the top issues on the agenda will be the free trade zone treaty. “Today we can say that it has taken effect and opens up new prospects for its member states,” he stressed. The document will make a starting point for more profound trade and economic relations between the CIS countries.