Minsk to host session of CIS interstate council for sci-tech cooperation

      Minsk will host the 16th session of the CIS Interstate Council for Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovations (IC STI) on 24-25 September, we learned from the press service of the State Science and Technology Committee of Belarus.
   “The agenda of the session includes more than 15 issues. The participants of the event will discuss the status of implementation of the CIS interstate innovation cooperation program for the period until 2020 and some pilot interstate innovation projects.
      Besides, members of the council will talk over the ways to coordinate the cooperation in science, technology, and innovations within the framework of such interstate organizations as the CIS, the Eurasian Economic Union, and the Belarus-Russia Union State,” the press service added.
Apart from that, the session is expected to discuss the draft agreement on setting up the CIS Joint Institute for Space Research, as well as to review the activities of the CIS International Innovative Nanotechnology Center in 2015.