Lebedev: Humanitarian sphere is one of the key spheres for cooperation in the CIS

Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee, Executive Secretary Sergei Lebedev has sent a greeting message to the participants and guests of the 15th Forum of the creative and scientific intelligentsia of the CIS member states, BelTA informs.

The greeting notes that the jubilee forum in Tashkent testifies to Uzbekistan's aspiration to further preserve and expand the humanitarian cooperation within the Commonwealth, develop the common humanitarian space. Sergey Lebedev considers it symbolic that such an important humanitarian event is held in Uzbekistan, which is unusually rich in its cultural and historical past, and that it will conclude the Year of Folk Arts and Cultural Heritage in the Commonwealth of Independent States in 2022.

"The general humanitarian sphere is one of the key areas of mutually beneficial cooperation within the CIS, it is an important unifying factor based on the historical and cultural unity, spiritual traditions and values and trust between peoples. Over the 30-year history of the Commonwealth, cooperation between CIS countries in the humanitarian sphere has taken place in a broad range of areas, most notably in the formation of common educational, scientific, informational and cultural spaces. There has been cooperation in the field of youth affairs, protection of public health and medical care of the CIS citizens, physical culture and sports, tourism, publishing, books distribution and printing," said the Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee in his address.

The motto of the forum is "Humanitarian cooperation - thirty years of experience and prospects of development". According to Sergei Lebedev, in this context it is important to discuss at various venues of the forum such topical issues of humanitarian cooperation in the Commonwealth as the scientific and educational community, the latest CIS cultural code, new mechanisms of integration of CIS literature, youth cooperation of the CIS countries.