RF-Belarus Parliam Assembly session to discuss Union State budget.

MOSCOW, November 25 (Itar-Tass) - The budget of the Union State for
2010 will be discussed by the regular, 36th two-day session of the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Russia and Belarus that is opening
in Moscow on Wednesday.


Its sessions are traditionally held at the State
Duma (lower house of RF parliament) building.
Meetings of eight commissions of the assembly will be held on the
first day of its work - legislation, economic policy, social policy,
foreign policy, security and defence, ecology and information policy
commissions. The commission on budget and finance will work in an enlarged
format.
Two plenary sessions will be held on November 26. They will discuss
possible amendments to the Union State's budget of the current year,
including the issue of redistribution of budget funds with the aim of
financing of festive events devoted to the 10th anniversary of the signing
of the Union State founding Treaty. The date will be marked on December 8,
2009. The State Duma stressed in this connection that the Union State has
passed the time test and is fulfilling its tasks oriented towards the
development of mutually beneficial relations between the two brotherly
nations.
The Union's parliamentarians also plan to consider changes in the
membership pf the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union States. Besides,
they will discuss the assembly's 2010 work schedule and a plan of its
international activities for the coming year.
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.RF, Belarus FMs joint collegium to discuss foreign policy.

MOSCOW, November 25 (Itar-Tass) - The programme of concerted actions
in the foreign policy sphere for 2010-2011 will be discussed in Moscow on
Wednesday by participants in a joint meeting of the collegiums of the
Foreign Ministries of Russia and Belarus.
Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergei Martynov is arriving in the Russian
capital to take part in the meeting.
"The meeting participants plan to consider and adopt the Programme of
concerted actions in the foreign policy sphere of the Union State members
for 2010-2011 that will reflect the achieved level of foreign political
interaction of Russia and Belarus based on coincidence of views
practically on all major problems of world politics," Russian Foreign
Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said.
The document will determine "priority directions of cooperation both
in the bilateral format and within international organisations'
framework," the diplomat added. "It envisages the possibility of the
provision of mutual expert and information support on a wide range of
issues, as well as the provision of assistance by Russian foreign
institutions to Belarusian citizens who found themselves in a difficult
situation in countries where there are no Belarusian offices.
The participants in the joint collegiums meeting also plant "to
consider in detail prospects for the expansion of the bilateral
interaction in issues of the formation of a new architecture of European
security and in the disarmament sphere." According to Nesterenko, the two
countries' diplomatic agencies give the priority importance in this sphere
to the work aimed at the deepening of integration processes in the
post-Soviet space, first of all within the framework of the Eurasian
Economic Community (EurAsEC) and Collective Security Treaty Organisation
(CSTO). He stressed that the sphere of special attention is the assistance
to the creation of the customs union of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan.
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.Quake measuring 5 points rocks east Kamchatka coast.

PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, November 25 (Itar-Tass) - There has been an
earthquake measuring 5.0 points in the Kamchatka Bay near the eastern
coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The quake caused no casualties or
damage, the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian
Academy of Sciences told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.
The earthquake was registered on November 24 at 22:41, local time
(13:41, Moscow time). Its epicentre was located 500 kilometres northeast
of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The nearest populated localities -
Krutoberegovo settlement in the east of the peninsula and Nikolskoye on
the Bering Island (Commander Islands) are situated 100 and 140 kilometres
from the seismic event place, respectively. The seismic focus was at a
depth of 20 kilometres under the seabed.
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