Directive No. 1356-r, 25 May 2021
The CIS member states will develop cooperation
in promoting employment. They will focus on cutting unemployment, controlling illegal
migration, and eliminating bureaucratic and communication barriers. Prime
Minister Mikhail Mishustin has approved the relevant draft agreement. The document
is to be signed following the meeting of the Council of CIS Heads of Government
in Minsk on 28 May.
This agreement will be the first multilateral
international agreement between the CIS countries in the field of employment. The
goal is to create the necessary conditions to foster a common employment market.
To achieve this, the agreement calls for the introduction
of a centralised recruitment system to expand employment opportunities for
young people, people of pre-retirement age and people with disabilities. The
project will also include creating national information portals to promote
employment, developing short practice-oriented training programmes that meet
international standards, and launching a system of mutual recognition of qualifications.
The approved draft agreement complies with the
provisions of the 17 March 2017 CIS Concept of Phased Formation of a Common
Labour Market and Regulation of Labour Migration.
Other documents to be signed following the meeting
of the CIS Heads of Government Council include an agreement on cooperation in
sanitary protection of territories, and an agreement on preventing and combating
the use of fraudulent trademarks and geographical indications. The heads of
government will also adopt a joint action plan to counter the spread of
infectious diseases, approve a package of joint measures for the prevention and
control of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), and approve a concept for cooperation
between the authorities that manage state material reserves.
The Council of Heads of Government of the CIS was
established in 1991. It is the second most important body in the CIS after the
Council of Heads of State. The council coordinates cooperation in economic,
social and other areas of mutual interest. At its meetings, the council adopts cooperation
documents in energy, industry, transport security, agriculture, nature
protection, the digital development of society and humanitarian cooperation.
