Joint Meeting of CIS Advisory Board on Humanitarian Cooperation and CIS Humanitarian Action Trust Fund Takes Place in Brest

The joint meeting of the CIS Advisory Board on Humanitarian Cooperation and the CIS Humanitarian Action Trust Fund took place in Brest (Republic of Belarus). During the session draft decisions of the Council of the CIS Foreign Ministers and the Council of the CIS Heads of State for humanitarian sphere were approved.

According to the press office of the CIS Executive Committee, the participants supported the proposal of the Kyrgyz Republic to grant a status of the CIS Cultural Capital in 2022 to the city of Karakol. They approved the related documents and suggested the CIS Executive Committee to submit the drafts in accordance with established procedure. This year it is Brest that has the honorary title of the CIS Cultural Capital. In 2020 the title will go to Shymkent (Republic of Kazakhstan) and in 2021 – to Dushanbe (Republic of Tajikistan).

The participants also approved the draft decision of the Council of the CIS Foreign Ministers and the Council of the CIS Heads of State to declare the year 2020 the Year of Folk Art and Cultural Heritage and the year 2023 – the Year of Russian Language as a Language of Intercultural Communication.

Earlier the Council of the CIS Heads of State declared the year 2019 the Year of Book, 2020 the Year of the 75^th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945, and 2021 the Year of Architecture and Urban Planning.