BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 9. The Commonwealth
of Independent States (CIS) has declared 2028 the Year of Social
Development and Quality of Life and 2029 the Year of CIS Transport
Connectivity.
This was reflected in a press release issued by the CIS
Executive Committee. The decisions were adopted at a meeting of the
CIS Council of Heads of State held in Turkmenistan today.
According to the publication, the initiative to designate 2028
as the Year of Social Development and Quality of Life was proposed
by Kyrgyzstan’s Ministry of Labor, Social Security and Migration
and supported by the CIS Advisory Council on Labor, Employment and
Social Protection.
Planned activities for 2028 include improving the legal
framework in the social and labor sectors, implementing pilot
projects, promoting best practices in social support, and
organizing international forums on legal, socioeconomic and
demographic policy.
The initiative to designate 2029 as the Year of CIS Transport
Connectivity was put forward by Turkmenistan as a continuation of
its 2026 CIS chairmanship priorities.
The initiative focuses on developing transport infrastructure,
coordinating different modes of transport, digitalizing the sector
and improving transport safety. These measures are intended to
strengthen economic integration, expand foreign trade links and
support sustainable regional development, the report says.
Cooperation priorities also include developing accessible and
sustainable transport and transit corridors, including for
landlocked countries, and strengthening multilateral cooperation in
the Caspian region.
“Areas of cooperation such as the development of transport
connectivity, the consolidation of efforts to create sustainable
and accessible transport and transit corridors for states –
including landlocked ones – and the strengthening of multilateral
cooperation in the Caspian region are in line with the global
context: they are aligned with the initiative to proclaim the UN
Decade of Sustainable Transport (2026-2035),” the report added.
