It is important to support the volunteer movement in the CIS, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said at a meeting of the CIS Heads of Government Council in Moscow on 18 December, BelTA has learned.

Roman Golovchenko lauded the practice of declaring thematic years in the CIS to concentrate joint efforts on important topics. The year 2023 was the Year of the Russian Language as a Language of Interethnic Communication in the CIS and logically ended with the agreement to set up the International Organization for the Russian Language. For us, the Russian language is the language of interstate and interethnic communication, a means of cultural, scientific, educational and interpersonal communication. This is not only an opportunity to speak the same language with colleagues in the CIS, but also with millions of people around the world," the Belarusian prime minister stressed.

Next year has been declared the Year of the Volunteer Movement in the CIS. "Volunteers are people with a big heart and an active civic position. The role of the volunteer movement in the development of modern civil society is steadily growing. It is important to support and strengthen the values of volunteering, especially among young people," Roman Golovchenko emphasized.

According to him, in recent years the youth theme has been increasingly gaining momentum in the CIS. Progress in any area of cooperation is impossible without the involvement of the younger generation. The CIS holds a huge number of events on youth topics. The prime minister said that the new international project "CIS Youth Capital" will be launched next year. In 2024, this status will go to Tashkent.

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