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Summit of CIS prime ministers opened in Ashkhabad

The summit of CIS prime ministers opened in Ashkhabad today, the agency reports referring to the International Tele and Radio Company Mir.

Ashkhabad. November 22. Kazakhstan Today - The summit of CIS prime ministers opened in Ashkhabad today, the agency reports referring to the International Tele and Radio Company Mir.

The agenda of the summit includes about 30 questions, mainly of economic-financial orientation, among them are the Convention on labor migration, the agreement of the Council of inter-regional and frontier cooperation. The heads of the governments will accept the budget of the CIS for the next year. It will be unanimously approved, as all the questions have been coordinated.

The chairmen of the cabinets of ministers started to gather in the capital of Turkmenistan. The Prime Minister of Russia Victor Zubkov arrived in Ashkhabad late at night, November 21. The Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Masimov arrived in Turkmenistan today. The session of the council of the CIS prime ministers will finish its work in the first half of the day. The negotiations will take place in the format of the interested cooperation.

In particular, the tripartite meeting of the Prime Ministers of Russia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, where the parties plan to sign the intergovernmental agreement on construction of the near-Caspian gas pipeline has been scheduled. It will provide transit of Turkmen and Kazakhstan gas on the Caspian coast to Russia and then to the Europe. The negotiations between the Prime Ministers of Russia and the Ukraine concerning purchase of gas in future will take place in Ashkhabad.

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