MOSCOW. Nov 18 (Interfax) - The highest-ranking officials of the CIS, the Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC), the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will discuss migration policy and ways to improve security and stability at a meeting in Moscow.
"At the meeting, which will be held in Moscow on November 22, participants will exchange views on key international policy issues. Besides, they also plan to discuss issues surrounding the strengthening of security and stability, measures to counter new challenges and threats and migration policy, as well as emergency prevention solutions and cleanup efforts," CIS Executive Committee spokesman Vladimir Nikanorov told Interfax on Friday.
The meeting will be attended by CIS Executive Committee Chairman and CIS Executive Secretary Sergei Lebedev, EurAsEC Secretary General Tair Mansurov, CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha and SCO Secretary General Muratbek Imanaliyev.
Konstantin Romodanovsky, director of Russia's Federal Migration Service and chairman of the Council of CIS Migration Services Heads, has also been invited to the event.
A joint communique will be signed at the end of the meeting, Nikanorov said.
The highest-ranking officials of the CIS, the EurAsEC, the CSTO and the SCO met for the first time in October 2010 to discuss the situation in Eurasia and their organizations' approaches to maintaining security and stability there.