Yulia Tymoshenko meeting with heads of CIS delegations

Prime Minister Yulia is in Yalta where she is meeting with CIS heads of government in Livadia Palace.

Taking part in the meeting are Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat, and the Prime Ministers of Tajikistant Akil Akilov, Belarus - Sergey Sidorsky, Kazakhstan - Karim Masimov, Kyrgyzstan - Daniyar Usenov, Armenia - Tigran Sargsyan, First Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Yagub Eyyubov, Deputy Head of Government and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov, Uzbekistan's Permanent Representative to the CIS Ostanakul Mirzayev, Chairman of the Executive Committee - Executive Secretary of the CIS Sergey Lebedev.

Today in Yalta the CIS heads of government will consider more than 20 projects aimed at jumpstarting and deepening cooperation.

In particular, they will consider the 2009-2010 Plan for Overcoming the Aftermath of the Financial and Economic Crisis.

The project contains measures that are global in scale in terms of policy and aims to expand the use of national currencies of the Commonwealth in transactions with each other, removing barriers in trade and to coordinate efforts in protecting the domestic markets of the CIS countries.

These series of propositions are connected to ensuring a higher level of transparency and openness in financial-economic activities by way of exchanging information on price regulation and the state of competition in socially important and infrastructural goods markets.

The Plan also calls for enacting measures designed to support CIS-participating countries with low incomes.

In addition to this, the heads of the CIS countries will consider a Cooperation Convention in the energy sector and the Immediate Measures Plan for its implementation.

The Conception project consists of pre-defined and agreed upon views and approaches of CIS countries with regard to cooperation in the energy sector and puts forth a goal, main tasks and principles as well mechanisms and priorities for cooperation among CIS countries in the fuel and power complex, energy integration and the oil and gas sectors.

The Summit’s agenda also will consider a CIS Cooperation Agreement in the sphere of exploiting inter-governmental lines of electrical transmission of national electrical energy systems, which foresees the determination of conditions and legal framework for the dependable and effective use of inter-governmental lines of electrical transmission.

The CIS heads of government in addition to this will consider the International Transportation Corridors Agreement that envisages inter-governmental cooperation in the priority areas of harmonizing rules and regulations for international transportation corridors. Also, the agreement should develop the securing of resources for ensuring information and logistical support of transportation corridors.