At the summit, the CIS officials considered wide-range of issues of cooperation of the Commonwealth, the press service of the CIS Executive Committee said.

The sides signed a protocol to the agreement on free trade zone on rules and procedures of regulating public procurement, convention on preserving agriculture bio diversity.

The sides also approved strategy “Health of population of the CIS”, the concept of cooperation in combating cancer diseases, programme of cooperation in preventing and treating diabetes for 2016-2020 and the concept of cooperation in chemical industry.

The agreement on exchange of information on accidents at the power objects of the CIS, the agreement on cooperation in the field of professional education in power sector, agreement on information interaction of the CIS on movement of radioactive materials were signed.

Prime Ministers also discussed issues of adaptation of the CIS to modern realities. The sides approved a draft decision on conducting of population census in 2020.

The regulation on international exhibition ART EXPO of the Commonwealth was approved. They also considered education of inter-governmental progamme of innovative cooperation of the CIS states till 2020 and the Complex of measures on its execution for 2015-2016.

The CIS officials also discussed several organizational and budget-financial issues.

Next summit of the CIS Prime Ministers will be held in Belarus on 28 October 2016.