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29.03.2021
March 29, 2021, CIS Executive Committee, Minsk, Moscow

On March 29, 2021, a joint meeting of the Council of Permanent Plenipotentiaries of the Commonwealth Member States to the statutory and other bodies of the Commonwealth and the Commission on Economic Affairs under the CIS Economic Council was held under the chairmanship of the Republic of Belarus (using videoconferencing).

The meeting was chaired by Marina Dolgopolova, Chairperson of the Council of Permanent Plenipotentiaries of the Commonwealth Member States, and Vladimir Semashko, Chairperson of the Commission on Economic Issues under the CIS Economic Council.

The event was attended by Sergey Lebedev, Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee, his deputies, as well as heads of structural divisions of the CIS Executive Committee.

The agenda of the above meeting included the issue "Report on the activities of the Regional Commonwealth in the field of communications and the Coordination Council of the CIS member states on informatization under the Regional Commonwealth in the field of communications for 2015-2020."

The report on the activities of the RCC and the Coordination Council in 2015–2020 was approved at the joint 56th meeting of the Council of Heads of RCC Communications Administrations and the 26th meeting of the Coordination Council on December 11, 2020.

The General Director of the RCC Executive Committee Mukhitdinov Nurudin Nasretdinovich made a report at the joint meeting of the Council of Permanent Representatives and KEV.

In 2015-2020, the activities of the RCC and the Coordinating Council were aimed at preparing coordinated proposals on priority areas for the development of the industry, digital development, harmonization of the regulatory framework in the field of informatization, building an "information society" and ensuring information security in the Commonwealth space, promoting implementation projects in the field of informatization, radio communications, postal communications, telecommunications, holding thematic conferences and forums dedicated to topical issues of the development of communications and informatization.

Having heard the Report on the activities of the Regional Commonwealth in the field of communications and the Coordination Council of the CIS member states on informatization under the Regional Commonwealth in the field of communications, the participants of the joint meeting noted the positive work of these bodies on the development of cooperation and deepening the integration ties of the Commonwealth countries in their field, as well as on the formation of the consolidated position of the communications administrations of the CIS countries to represent their interests in the specialized international organizations of the UN.

The Regional Commonwealth in the field of communications and the Coordinating Council of the CIS member states on informatization under the Regional Commonwealth in the field of communications, together with the relevant ministries and departments of the CIS member states, were instructed to continue work on the implementation of the decisions of the supreme bodies of the CIS, including in the part of the Cooperation Strategy of the member states CIS in the construction and development of the information society and the Action Plan for its implementation for the period up to 2025, the Concept of cooperation of the CIS member states in the field of digital development of society and the Plan of priority measures for its implementation.