On instructions from President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, today, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov has attended a meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of Government conducted via videoconferencing. The meeting focused on issues of economic cooperation among the CIS member-countries, including amid the current epidemiological situations in the Commonwealth and around the world. During the meeting, the Foreign Minister affirmed Turkmenistan’s commitment to cooperation within the CIS, in particular on the implementation of the 2030 Economic Development Strategy of the Commonwealth of Independent States. In this context, special emphasis was placed on the strengthening of multilateral transport relations and the development of the sustainable North-South and East-West transit transport corridors. The Turkmen side evinced an interest in promoting collaboration in the agroindustrial, machine building, oil and gas processing, health and pharmaceutical, and services sectors, and the humanitarian area. An initiative by President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov to declare 2021 in the CIS as the Year of Architecture and Urban Development also received particular attention. Thus, the Turkmen side had signed the resolution approving the relevant Action Plan at the meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of Government in May of 2020. In this context, the meeting participants were informed about events planned in Turkmenistan for next year in the field of architecture and urban development. Today’s meeting approved an Action Plan for the first phase of the 2030 CIS Economic Development Strategy. The 2021-2025 Plan includes 29 sections devoted to trade-economic cooperation, industry, the fuel-and-energy sector, transport, communications and informatization, agroindustry, the monetary and financial policy, and the labor market. The document envisages working out and implementing joint measures and projects to expand win-win production cooperation between enterprises and technologically interconnected manufacturing facilities, to promote the digitization of the national economy, to enhance cooperation in the field of innovations, to facilitate transit of goods across the CIS countries’ state borders, to boost mutual trade in commodities and services, and to ensure the smooth operation of national payment systems. A considerable part of the Plan is dedicated to the development of the stock and insurance market and capacity building in the field of education and science. A special section covers the issues of mitigating the negative impact of epidemiological situations on the CIS countries’ economies amid the rapid spread of COVID-19. An Action Plan for the 2020-2025 Strategy on Ensuring Transport Security for International Goods Traffic inside the CIS Member-States, and a 2021-2022 Priority Action Plan for Humanitarian Cooperation were also approved at the meeting. The next Council meeting is planned to be held in the city of Minsk in May of 2021.