19 30 21 00 CIS and Eastern Countries exchange (Juszczac, Blaser)

CIS has 12 members see www.cisstat.com eng cis.

It operates domestic services and services to the CIS countries and the Middle East.

All CIS countries take own consumption into account in the preparation of average prices.

In June 2005 the CIS Council of Heads of Governments had also adopted an agreement on cooperation to combat taxation fraud, which had already been signed by a number of CIS countries.

279,906 migrants arrived to the Russian Federation the same year, of which 93 came from CIS countries.

The country has had a limited military partnership with Russian Federation, other CIS countries and a partnership with NATO since 1994.

Half of the CIS and South East European countries are expected to miss at least one of the Millennium Development Goals.

Many CIS countries had adopted special national programmes to prevent and suppress illegal migration, human trafficking and the transborder weapons trade.

Note Two dots () signify that data are not available. CIS Commonwealth of Independent States OPEC Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.

A round table for CIS and Eastern European countries was organized as a side event to discuss decentralization in the context of countries in transition to market economy.

Transition economies Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

South East Europe and the CIS countries have a high share of people living in poverty, with the incidence remaining high in seven low income countries in that region.

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Treaties within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

Furthermore, the Republic of Kazakhstan is actively cooperating with CIS and other countries through bilateral and multilateral agreements in the sphere of migrants' protection.

The CIS countries stood ready to develop any form of cooperation with United Nations bodies involved in the area of crime prevention and criminal justice.

It was suggested that the mandate of the Special Rapporteur should include the role of monitoring the work of the 12 CIS countries in that endeavour.

The CIS is using software from the Eurostat OECD comparison programme.

While all countries benefit from international cooperation, the subprogramme recognizes a special need of the countries of CIS and south eastern Europe, where forest sector problems tend to be more acute and national capacity weaker.

The CIS countries would broaden their cooperation, particularly through their Coordination Bureau and Anti Terrorist Centre, in order to combat the most dangerous types of crime in the region.

The CIS countries were constantly improving the treaty and legal basis for combating illegal migration, money laundering, kidnapping, trafficking in humans, the trade in illicit weapons and other crimes.

UNICEF promoted the Initiative in 50 countries, but expansion was really only evident in the Central and Eastern Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States and Baltic States region (CEE CIS).

The main net exporters in the world are the CIS, Japan and Brazil.

Price surveys for the 2005 Programme began in the CIS in January 2005.

UNOMIG and the CIS peacekeeping force maintained close cooperation in fulfilling their respective mandates.

(d) The Baltic Environment Forum (one workshop for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)).

The goal of the Agreement is to strengthen the fight against terrorism in the CIS countries and to prevent acquisition of mobile zenithal rocket complexes of Igla and Strela by terrorist groups.

Galaktika (also IT) has done the same by investing in the CIS markets (Kazakhstan, Ukraine).

The Decision on the Means of Supervision of International Transfers of Igla and Strela type Portable Zenithal rocket Complexes by CIS Member States of the Council of CIS Heads of States was signed on 19 September 2003, in Yalta.

The Commander of the collective peacekeeping forces of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) also participated.

Over the same period, the share of the world's Internet population of South East Europe and CIS countries more than doubled (from 2 per cent to 5 per cent) while that of the developed countries went down from 73 per cent to 57 per cent.

The 1996 Regional Conference to Address the Problems of Refugees, Displaced Persons, Other Forms of Involuntary Displacement and Returnees in the Countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was an example of such coordination.

A memorandum of understanding was signed to that effect between the UNTOP and the CIS Executive Secretariat.

The Republic of Tajikistan is one of the first CIS countries to have ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and assumed the obligations in the protection of women's rights.

Agreement on the Cooperation between the Ministries of Interior of the CIS Participating States for the Suppression of Terrorism.

In addition to participating in those instruments, more than half of the CIS countries had also already signed the new International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism, which had been an initiative of the Russian Federation.

The United Nations and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) sought to strengthen cooperation in the area of conflict prevention.

Memorandum regarding Cooperation in Competition Policy among the Fair Trade Commission of the Republic of Korea, the Interstate Council for Antimonopoly Policy of CIS countries, the Competition Council of the Republic of Latvia and the Competition Council of Romania, September 2003.

They maintained close liaison with the authorities of the two parties, including their law enforcement agencies, and the CIS peacekeeping force.

Most of the issues raised by the Declaration in the area of crime and criminal justice were in line with the tasks set out by the CIS countries in their interstate programme of joint measures to combat crime for the period 2005 2007.

By end 2003, the number of jobless in Eastern Europe and in the CIS was about 18 million and 10 million, respectively.

The two sides were represented at the ministerial level my Special Representative and the Commander of the CIS peacekeeping force also participated.

Proximity to the European Union (EU) serves as an additional incentive to public administration reform in a number of the CIS member States.

The idea would be to legislate on the basis of the international framework, while including certain elements which were important to the CIS States.