YIPA CIS to focus on implementing youth policies in the CIS

The meeting took place in Belarus holding the current presidency of the YIPA, in its capital city Minsk.

“Today we can review youth-related challenges in the CIS to build sound policies of future work for youth, propose recommendations for authorities and improve model laws”, said Inessa Kleschuk, Coordinator of the Youth Interparliamentary Assembly of the CIS Member Nations, Member of the Standing Commission on Law of the House of Representative of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus.

Inessa Kleschuk stressed the core functions of the Youth Interparliamentary Assembly in facilitating law-making efforts of the IPA CIS. She mentioned that the CIS had seen the adoption of a number of model laws to harmonize national legislation to support younger generations, such as Public Youth Policy, Status of Students, Youth Outreach Programs, Basic Public Safeguards of the Rights of the Child, Physical Fitness and Sports, Protecting Children against Information Harmful to their Health and Development, etc.

YIPA has promoted such draft mode laws as Recreation for Youth, Student Volunteer Teams, Cooperation of Young Researchers in the CIS Countries, she added.

She recalled that education and youth outreach activities were the cross-cutting themes of the first Youth Interparliamentary Forum which took place last October. At its 5 session of this April YIPA decided to establish a network tool for interparliamentary engagement in the field of youth policy.

Youth Interparliamentary Assembly of the CIS Member Nations was established in November 2012. It is a standing advisory body of the IPA CIS.