TURKMEN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER TO ATTEND RA PRESIDENT INAUGURATION
PanARMENIAN.Net
02.04.2008 13:26 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ By order of President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov,
Turkmenistan’s parliament speaker Akdzha Nurberdyeva will attend
festivities on occasion of RA President-elect’s accession to office,
Turkmenistan.ru reports.
The inauguration of Serzh Sargsyan is due on April 9.
KOCHARYAN WAS TOLD ABOUT IRRIGATION PROJECTS
KarabakhOpen
02-04-2008 10:40:51
As of now, there is only 2000 ha of irrigated land in Karabakh, and
it is foreseen to increase this area up to 4000 ha, said the NKR prime
minister Ara Harutiunyan during the meeting of the NKR government with
the acting president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan. It is foreseen to
increase the area of irrigated land to 10 thousand hectares by 2010.
In 2008 the government allocated 1660 million drams for the irrigation
project. The project involves changing the direction of the river
Trgeh to flow into the reservoir of Sarsang and the construction of
3 water power plants on the river. It will allow irrigating 1610 ha
of land in the villages of Chapar, Zardakhach, Haterk, Zaglik in the
region of Martakert and the village of Aknaberd in Shahumyan.
It is also foreseen to lay out an open water pipeline from the
reservoir of Khachen to Nor Maragha and Martakert, which will irrigate
another 1500 ha of farming land in the region of Martakert, as well
as a 3.8 km branch of the water pipeline Khachen-Martakert.
KEMALISM LOSES ITS GRIP
Nicholas Blincoe
Guardian
April 2, 2008 12:00 PM
UK
The ideology of Ataturk is fading and Turkey’s Justice and Development
party is building a more multi-ethnic country.
News that the supreme court of Turkey is to consider outlawing the
ruling party sounds worrying, but in reality, this is the last act
of a fatally wounded animal: the old guard of Turkey, who lay claim
to being the heirs of the Kemalist revolution. In an article for Cif
yesterday, Stephen Kinzer wondered if the Justice and Development party
– known as the AKP – is up for this new fight, but he should be in
no doubt. The AKP has learned that aggression pays when confronted
by this self-perpetuating elite of soldiers, secret policemen,
bureaucrats and heads of industries.
Kemalism, the political doctrine associated with Kemal Ataturk,
prides itself on being resolutely modern and western. Modern and
western-looking, that is, as long as this is 1923, when Mussolini ruled
Italy, Stalin was rising to power in Russia and Turkey’s Republican
People’s party was formed.
There is no longer anything modern about Kemalism. As a doctrine,
it is broadly socialist, with a strong emphasis on Turkish- and
state-owned industries, and big state projects like the south-east
Anatolian project.
It is also militaristic. The constitution guarantees power to the
army, while absolving it from effective oversight, resulting in an
industrial military complex almost as sclerotic as the one that has
brought Pakistan to its knees. The other feature of Kemalism is an
aggressive secularism that justifies attacks on religion by claiming
that Turkish-ness transcends and embraces all other identities. This
idea has never been accepted by the Assyrians, Arabs, Armenians,
Greeks, Jews and Kurds that form the ethnic minorities of Turkey.
Kemalism finally lost its grip in Turkey in 2002 with the ascent to
power of the AKP. But it has been a long slow death. The AKP has lived
under constant threat of coups and judicial manoeuvres. However,
leaders like Recep Tayyip Erdogan have served time in prison and
this seems to have cured them of all fear. Erdogan, an ex-mayor of
Istanbul, was imprisoned as recently as 1998 when his Welfare Party
was outlawed. The modernisers of the Welfare party left the Islamist
rump behind and formed the current AKP in 2001, winning the subsequent
election. Since then, the party has scored impressive successes in
the municipal elections of 2004 and the general election of 2007,
called because of the refusal of the old elite to accept the AKP’s
nomination for president, Abdullah Gul.
The case of Gul’s presidency is as good an illustration of the AKP’s
fighting instincts as any. Far from running from confrontation, the
party has looked for fights. It has used EU rulings as a stick to
beat the Kemalists. The headscarf issue, for instance, has shown the
party to be more in step with contemporary values such as freedom of
expression and freedom of religion than its rivals.
We should note, too, that the AKP has succeeded where Kemalism failed
in building a far more multi-ethnic Turkey. The municipal elections
of 2004 reduced the Republican People’s party to eight cities in the
pleasure grounds of Istanbul and Izmir. The AKP won 58 districts out
of 81 and all of the big Arab and Kurdish cities (Diyarbakir, aside)
of the south and south-east. The results show that the AKP is becoming
the first choice with Turkey’s large Kurdish and Arab minorities.
The AKP’s most daring piece of politics was to ban the state security
courts, which it did at the behest of the European Union. The courts
were key to the army’s power in Turkey. Soldiers sat alongside judges;
prosecutors were often serving officers; defence lawyers were not
permitted to directly question witnesses; and the proceedings took
place in private.
The abolition of the courts in 2004 evidently caught the military
and secret police by surprise, as they were just about to try dozens
of suspects in the attack on the British consulate of the previous
year. The trials were actually under way when the courts discovered
they no longer existed.
The AKP has a talent for picking fights, and these fights have given
it political momentum. The old guard staked their identity on a modern
Turkey, even if they had to outlaw or imprison everyone in the county
to achieve it.
The AKP is smart enough to win this latest fight with the judiciary,
and I suspect the fight will strengthen its hand as it builds a
genuinely modern, multi-ethnic Turkey.
TREND Information, Azerbaijan
March 30 2008
Public Cannot Derive Expected Results from Minsk Group on
Nagorno-Karabakh Solution -Vice Speaker
30.03.08 18:11
Azerbaijan, Baku, 30 March / Trend News corr. S.Ilhamgii / Bahar
Muradova, the Vice-Speaker of Azerbaijan, does not agree with the
demand of the public-political organizations to dissolve OSCE Minsk
Group.
`I consider most appropriable the official position of Azerbaijani
State in this issue,’ Muradova said to journalists.
The project of Resolution on Situation in Occupied Territories of
Azerbaijan adopted during the 62nd session of UN General Assembly on
14 March. The representatives of three countries-co-chairs of OSCE
Minsk Group, the United States, Russian and France, being mediators
between Armenia and Azerbaijan voted against the resolution for
peaceful settlement of the conflict. The public and most political
structures of Azerbaijan started the campaign to refuse from
mediation of co-chairs and dissolve of Minsk group.
Vice Speaker stated she considered appropriable adoption of the
resolution submitted by Azerbaijan. As Azerbaijan could not reach
such results several years before.
`Different countries have different political and economic approach
to such issue. We cannot force them to make such step in favor of
Azerbaijan. However, countries with broader possibilities affected on
other countries to vote against the resolution. We take this fact
with great regret,’ the Vice Speaker said.
Muradova noted that the Azerbaijani States submitted an appeal to
OSCE Secretariat to dissolve Minsk Group or to change its
composition. Muradova believes that the protests of the Azerbaijani
population against the positions of OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs should
be taken normally. ‘Public cannot receive the expected results from
Minsk Group for a long time. In any case it is necessary to support
the official position of the state to continue the mediation by OSCE
Minsk Group in the peace processes,’ Vice Speaker said.
OUR DEBT TO TIBET
Forward
27/
March 27 2008
NY
China’s violent repression of Tibetan freedom protesters over the past
few weeks is turning into a test of the world community’s ability
to act with even a modicum of conscience in the face of outrageous
injustice. So far, the results are dismal.
The crisis began with a protest march by Buddhist monks March 10,
the 49th anniversary of a failed, blood-soaked Tibetan uprising. The
march, by most accounts peaceful at first, was met by Chinese troops
with brute force, touching off weeks of rioting. China reports 22
Tibetan dead so far; Tibetan groups say the number is more than 140.
As the repression mounts, China has cut off phone lines and Internet
access and banned Westerners from the region.
Responses from other nations could generously be described as tepid.
The issue was raised before the United Nations Human Rights Council
in Geneva by a group of human rights organizations, including Amnesty
International, but the U.N. agency declined to act. Russia’s ambassador
said the crisis was "clearly not an issue" for the world body.
Individual voices have been raised; major newspapers have written
angry editorials, and Elie Wiesel gathered a group of 25 fellow Nobel
laureates – most of them scientists, not activists or artists – to
sign a letter of protest. Steven Spielberg resigned as an artistic
adviser to this summer’s Beijing Olympics.
Among major governments, however, only France has offered a significant
gesture, threatening to boycott the opening ceremony of the Beijing
Olympics this summer. In Washington, Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice phoned her Chinese counterpart to urge "restraint," but the
White House said President Bush did not intend to boycott the Beijing
games. Neither does Germany’s leader.
It’s not as if the moral equation is a complicated one. Unlike many
of the world’s national-ethnic disputes, Tibet is a simple case of
black and white, with barely a hint of gray. The Himalayan nation has
been under Chinese military occupation since 1951, forcefully annexed
by the occupier, its national language and culture suppressed, its
religion stifled, its population swamped by millions of ethnic Han
settlers relocated there at government behest. Attempts at protest
or ethnic revival over the years have been met with deadly force.
Tibet’s spiritual and national leader, the Dalai Lama, driven into
exile during the 1959 uprising, has emerged over the years as a global
symbol of peace. His advocacy of nonviolence won him the Nobel Peace
Prize in 1989, and his public appearances around the world attract
millions of admirers. China, on the other hand, demonizes him as
a criminal and a "devil." Government spokesmen blame the current
violence on "running dogs of the Dalai clique" – a double injustice,
since the Dalai Lama has been deploring Tibetan violence.
It may be, in fact, that the uprising represents a new Tibetan
generation’s frustration with the Dalai Lama after his years of
fruitless efforts to win their rights nonviolently. If Tibetans
continue down the dangerous path of rebellion, much will be lost.
Tibet will lose its hope of freedom. The Dalai Lama’s star will dim,
and the world could lose one of its most powerful voices of hope.
Yet the world community seems intent on turning a blind eye.
Indignation over military occupation seems to operate only when the
accused is too weak to defend itself. The nations, for all their
lecturing of Israel over its 40-year occupation of the Palestinian
territories, fall silent in the face of China’s 60-year occupation of
Tibet. They are still as China works to obliterate Tibetan culture
and identity. Governments delight in receiving the Dalai Lama with
pomp and ceremony – Bush gave him a Congressional Gold Medal just
last year – but none take up his cause.
A special word must be said about the actions of Israel and the
worldwide Jewish community this month, because a special debt is
owed and is unpaid. The Dalai Lama has long shown a special interest
in the Jewish community because of a shared history of exile and
persecution. In 1990, as Roger Kamenetz wrote here last week,
the Dalai Lama invited a delegation of Jewish scholars to spend a
week with him at his headquarters in India to discuss the Jewish
experience of surviving as a nation in exile. His other interest,
less often discussed, was to learn why so many young Jews abandon
their roots and come to him for spiritual nourishment.
The Dalai Lama has visited Israel twice in recent years, in 1999 and
2006. He’s been honored by the Knesset and celebrated by the public,
yet the Israeli government’s leaders, unlike those of other nations,
have not received him. China is one of Israel’s important trading
partners and arms customers, and Israel doesn’t feel secure enough
to risk upsetting its friends over matters of principle.
Not that the Chinese appreciated Israel’s solicitude. Nothing
happens in China without the government’s say-so, and the Chinese
don’t quite believe that other countries are different. When the
Dalai Lama visited in February 2006, the Chinese consul lodged a
formal protest with Israel’s Foreign Ministry. "If China would let
the head of Hamas visit, Israel would be angry," the consul wrote,
according to press reports at the time.
Four months later, China did indeed give the Hamas foreign minister
a festive reception in Beijing, including a meeting with China’s own
foreign minister. It was a diplomatic trifecta: a coup for Hamas,
a slap at Israel and another example of official Chinese hypocrisy.
If Israel is reluctant to speak in the face of China’s latest
crackdown, then, its fears may be understandable. The same can’t
be said of the Jewish communities of the Diaspora. American Jewish
organizations wield considerable clout in Washington and elsewhere.
They have a reputation for stepping forward on matters of conscience;
it’s part of the reason they are listened to. But, as we’ve noted
before, it is a muscle they haven’t much used in some time, out of
fear for Israel’s safety.
They’ve held back on the issue of the Armenian genocide, fearing
to damage Israeli relations with Turkey. They have feared to cross
the Bush administration on any number of issues, to the annoyance
of longtime allies in the civil liberties, civil rights, immigrant
rights and other advocacy communities. This reticence is a bad habit,
and needs breaking. Diaspora Jewry should be sensitive to Israel’s
insecurities, but it need not be paralyzed.
China’s repression will continue until international pressure forces it
to back off. Some international leaders argue that the West should wait
for Chinese market forces to generate a new openness over the coming
generations. But Tibet doesn’t have time. Its culture and national
identity are being steamrolled. Now, with the fires burning and the
Olympics approaching, there is an opportunity that must be seized.
The world’s leaders should make it clear to Beijing that they will
not attend the Olympic opening ceremony unless the Chinese leadership
agrees to sit down with the Dalai Lama and start discussing Tibetan
rights. Bush and German Chancellor Andrea Merkel need to take the
lead; France’s president must not be left standing alone. But they
won’t act unless the public demands it.
ISTC TO DISCUSS ISSUE OF FINANCING 5 PROJECTS SUBMITTED BY ARMENIAN SCIENTIFIC CENTERS
Noyan Tapan
March 28, 2008
YEREVAN, MARCH 28, NOYAN TAPAN. The 46th sitting of the board of
managers of the International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) will
be held in Dushanbe, the capital city of Tadjikistan, on April 8-9. The
issue of financing 5 projects submitted by Armenian scientific centers
will be discussed at the sitting, NT correspondent was informed by
Hamlet Navasardian, chief manager of the ISTC’s Armenian regional unit.
He considered as possible the approval of some projects submitted for
financing previously by Armenian scientific research institutions. In
particular, at the previous sitting held in December, the ISTC board
of managers approved an Armenian project submitted a year ago.
H. Navasardian said that this center, which was established with the
aim of encouraging the use of capacities of the military-industrial
complex of CIS countries for peaceful purposes, has financed 2,579
projetcs of a total of 785.59 mln dollars presented by scientific
centers of CIS countries.
According to him, since Armenia’s inclusion in ISTC programs 13 years
ago, the ISTC has received about 300 bids for project financing from
various Armenian scientific centers, and 141 bids of a total of 31.56
mln dollars have been satisfied. 42% of Armenian projects is financed
by the EU, 36% – by the U.S, the rest – by Japan, South Korea, Norway
and Canada.
March 28, 2008
Press Release
Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America
H.E. Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian, Prelate
6252 Honolulu Avenue
La Crescenta, CA 91214
Tel: (818) 248-7737
Fax: (818) 248-7745
E-mail: [email protected]
Website:
EASTER CELEBRATION AT THE WESTERN PRELACY
Each year, Prelacy clergy, Executive Council, Ladies Auxiliary, and
staff members come together to celebrate Easter with a luncheon organized by
the Ladies Auxiliary. This year’s luncheon took place on the afternoon of
Wednesday, March 26, at the Prelacy "Dikran and Zarouhie Der Ghazarian"
Hall.
The reception began with the blessing of the home service presided
over by H.E. Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian, Prelate, and clergy members,
followed by the singing of Easter hymns.
During lunch, congratulatory remarks were offered by the attendees.
Closing remarks were delivered by the Prelate who highly commended the
devotion of all the volunteers to the advancement of the Prelacy’s mission
and prayed for the work to continue with renewed vigor.
PRELATE TO ATTEND ANNUAL BANQUET OF
FERRAHIAN HIGH SCHOOL
The annual banquet of Ferrahian High School will take place on the
evening of Fruday, March 29th, at Deukmejian Hall of Ararat Home in Mission
Hills, under the auspices of the Prelate.
The Prelate will attend the banquet accompanied by Executive Council
Vice-Chairman Dr. Hagop Der Megerdichian.
PRELATE TO CONDUCT OPENING OF
HOMENETMEN CAMP TECUYA
On the afternoon of Sunday, March 30, the Prelate will conduct the
official opening of the new Homenetmen campsite, Camp Tecuya in Frazier
Park.
The Prelate will be accompanied by Very Rev. Fathers Muron Aznikian
and Barthev Gulumian. A short program and reception is scheduled to take
place after the opening ceremony.
ANNUAL BANQUET OF THE CRESCENTA VALLEY
ARMENIAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION
The annual banquet of the Armenian Cultural Foundation Crescenta
Valley Chapter will take place on the evening of Sunday, March 30, at La
Canada Flintridge Country Club.
Proceeds from the banquet will benefit the mortgage burning of the
Crescenta Valley Armenian Center. Rev. Fr. Ardag Demirjian will attend and
convey the Prelate’s blessings.
PRELATE SENDS A CONGRATULATORY LETTER TO
FRESNO MAYOR ALAN AUTRY
The Armenian National Committee Central Valley has organized a
reception to take place on the afternoon of Sunday, March 30, during which
Fresno Mayor the Honorable Alan Autry will be honored as "Man of the Year".
On this occasion, the Prelate sent a congratulatory letter to Mayor
Autry in which he thanked him for his support of the Armenian Cause,
specifically his stance on the Armenian Genocide Resolution and his backing
of the building of a Genocide Memorial in Fresno. The Prelate also
commended his commitment to the welfare and progress of the city of Fresno.
DIVINE LITURGY AT THE PRELACY CHAPEL
On the evening of Saturday, April 5th, Divine Liturgy will be
celebrated at the Prelacy St. Dertad and St. Ashkhen Chapel. The Prelate
will preside over the Liturgy which will be celebrated by Rev. Fr. Vazken
Atmajian.
Services will begin at 6:00 p.m.
BAGHDAD UNDER CURFEW AMID CLASHES
BBC
KarabakhOpen
28-03-2008 10:31:07
A curfew has been imposed on Baghdad amid continuing clashes between
Shia militias and Iraqi security forces.
The curfew will last from 2300 (2000 GMT) on Thursday until 0500 on
Sunday to "protect civilians", officials say.
More than 130 people have died since a clampdown on Shia militias
in the southern city of Basra started on Tuesday. Unrest has spread
to Baghdad.
Earlier US President George W Bush praised Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki’s
decision to order the crackdown.
Heavy fighting between the Shia Mehdi Army, led by radical Shia cleric
Moqtada Sadr, has continued in Basra for a third day, with violence
in other parts of southern Iraq.
Late on Thursday, Sadr called for a political solution to the crisis.
In a statement relayed by his aide Hazem al-Aaraji, he said he wants
"everyone to pursue political solutions and peaceful protests and a
stop to the shedding of Iraqi blood".
Mr Maliki earlier vowed that he would continue the fight against the
militias for as long as was necessary.
"We have made up our minds to enter this battle and we will continue
until the end. No retreat," Mr Maliki said in a speech broadcast on
Iraqi state television.
The prime minister has personally overseen the operation in Basra,
which involves some 30,000 troops and police.
But Mehdi Army fighters remain in control of some densely-populated
areas.
Speaking at a US Air Force museum in Dayton, Ohio, Mr Bush said
"normalcy" was returning to Iraq.
"As we speak Iraqis are waging a tough battle against militia fighters
and criminals in Basra, many of whom have received arms and training
and funding from Iran," he said.
Mr Maliki’s move against Basra’s militias underlined "his leadership
and his commitment to enforce the law in an even-handed manner",
the US president added.
Rising violence
He spoke as one of several Americans injured this week in rocket
attacks on Baghdad’s Green Zone died, amid fresh missiles attacks on
the fortified area.
US embassy staff in Baghdad have been told not to leave reinforced
structures, following the attacks.
The state department has instructed embassy personnel to wear helmets
and other protective gear if they leave the building, even if they
stay within the Green Zone.
Meanwhile, one of Iraq’s two main oil export pipelines from Basra
was blown up in a bomb attack, sending oil prices above $107 a barrel.
And Basra’s police chief survived a bomb attack that killed three of
his bodyguards.
With many shops and markets shut, residents in the city said they
were beginning to run out of food and water.
In Baghdad, thousands of Sadr supporters marched to demand Mr Maliki
quit over the Basra operation and there was sporadic fighting in Shia
areas of the capital.
In other developments:
The FBI said it had recovered the bodies of two US security contractors
kidnapped in Iraq in 2006 A prominent Sunni civilian spokesman for
the Baghdad security plan, Tahseen Sheikhly, was kidnapped by gunmen
Dozens died in clashes between the security forces and militias in
the southern city of Kut Clashes have also been reported in the towns
of Hilla and Diwaniya, as well as the Shia holy city of Kerbala The
number of gunfights in southern Iraq appears to be growing, says the
BBC’s Crispin Thorold in Baghdad.
The fighting still seems to be mainly with members of the Mehdi Army,
our correspondent says.
The militia had held to a ceasefire since last August, contributing
to the general fall in violence across Iraq.
The government says it aims to re-impose law and order in Basra,
which the British military handed over to Iraqi forces in December.
However, Moqtada Sadr’s supporters say the government wants to weaken
the militias before local elections in October.
At stake, analysts say, is control of Iraq’s only port city and the
region’s oil fields.
AUTHORITIES MUST MULL OVER PEOPLE’S DISSATISFACTION
Anahit Yesayan
Hayots Ashkhar Daily
March 26, 2008
Interview with the speaker of ARFD Armenian Supreme Body Spartak
Seyranyan
"Was it intentional or accidental that the agreement on the formation
of quadrilateral coalition was signed together with the elimination
of the state of emergency?"
"In my view it was an attempt to combine the approaches of four
political powers in one joint program. And in this sense, I think there
was a symbol in signing the agreement on the day of the elimination
of the state of emergency.
I don’t share the idea, saying that this agreement solves the internal
political problem in Armenia. But it was evidently emphasized in the
agreement which problems are important for the four political powers
and their supporters.
"We already have the experience of the formation of coalition and ARFD
has already been part of coalition government. What is the difference
between this agreement and the previous one can we consider it a
progressive step?"
"The issues included in this coalition agreement is already a step
forward. As compared to the previous two documents this one covers
bigger working spheres. The previous agreements were more political
economic documents, and the agreement signed recently is a more
social-political document. Which means the primary problems included
in this document are different from the previous ones.
Life showed that we seem to have found the best mechanisms to
solve social-economic issues. Of course we disapprove of the tempo
and certain failings, but we must accept that we already have the
key-solutions and very soon we will probably find the key to the
solution of social-political issues.
And what is more important, in the agenda of the social-political
issues included in this document it is over again underscored that
the only way to the solution of the social-political problems faced
by our people is the social dialogue and the social agreement. And it
is not accidental that this government can be considered a government
of agreement."
"Criticizing the policy of the former and the ruling authorities,
during the whole period of the pre-election campaign, does ARFD
support quadrilateral coalition?"
"The thing is, each political power brought the issues, they found
important, to this document. It is a coalition of agreement, also
because it is the joint program of four political powers, including
Dashnaktsutyun’s concerns. In essence, here you can see all the
main theses and the priorities we advanced during the pre-election
campaign."
"Which are those problems?"
"First of all the future democratization of society, the problem of
the separation of the branches of authorities, eradication of the
atmosphere of impunity, and what is most important the maintenance
of the national strategic course of the development of our state.
The authorities must mull over the people’s disapproval, only in this
case will the country be able to overcome all the difficulties and
to develop. Or else, others will start solving our problems.
If it is the constructive opposition, which can influence
the authorities, then it is a natural and good phenomenon. But
unfortunately, in our reality those who decided to take care of the
people, tried to move the country towards another path.
The contents of this coalition agreement give ground to believe that
the authorities have the desire to take care of the country.
We didn’t discuss the issue of the positions during the
discussions. All the four political powers are well conscious that the
inventory of the problems faced by the country, the clarification of
the methods to solve those problems is much more important, than the
people who must head these processes. If we fail to perform swift and
profound reforms people will lose their trust towards the coalition
government, today we have time to gain this trust."
RA FOREIGN MINISTER TO LEAVE FOR MOSCOW ON MARCH 27
Noyan Tapan
March 26, 2008
YEREVAN, MARCH 26, NOYAN TAPAN. RA Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian
will leave for Moscow on March 27, where the sitting of the CIS
countries’ Foreign Ministers Council will be held the next day.
According to the report provided to Noyan Tapan by the RA Foreign
Ministry Press and Information Department, discussions on the plan
of events dedicated to the 65th anniversary of victory in the Great
Patriotic War, implementation of conception of information security
guaranteeing for 2008-2010, as well as on activization of cooperation
for fighting illegal circulation of drugs and psychotropic substances
are on the sitting’s agenda.
Issues connected with holding of consultations among CIS
member-countries’ Foreign Ministries and the plan of the main events
of implementation of the conception of CIS further development will
be also discussed.