Trade unions of Vitebsk, Smolensk, and Pskov regions will sign a cooperation agreement for 3 years

January 20, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA /. Trade union associations of Vitebsk, Smolensk and Pskov regions will sign a cooperation agreement for 2011-2013 in Polotsk today, the information and monitoring department of the regional trade union association informed a BELTA correspondent. Simultaneously with the signing of the trilateral framework document on cooperation, the program for the implementation of the agreement for 2011 will be approved. The main areas of cooperation between the trade unions of the three regions are the protection of labor and socio-economic rights of workers, the preparation of proposals for draft regulatory legal acts affecting the interests of employees, the exchange of experience, and the holding of joint scientific and practical conferences and other forms of training for trade union personnel. The agreement also provides for active interaction of trade union organizations in the fields of culture, physical culture and sports, in matters of health improvement and organization of tourist and excursion services for workers and their families. The program for the implementation of the agreement for 2011 includes events dedicated to the celebration of Victory Day, including honoring veterans and the Vigil of Memory for those who died in the Great Patriotic War. Traditionally, throughout the year, an exchange of delegations from the trade union associations of the three regions will be organized, and conferences, seminars, and sports and health events are planned. In September, a joint meeting of the presidiums of the trade union associations of the three regions will be held in Orsha on the issues of organizing interaction between trade unions and state administration bodies to improve the demographic situation in the border regions of Belarus and Russia. In 2011, the 20th anniversary of the establishment of cooperation between the trade union associations of Vitebsk and Smolensk regions will be celebrated. The first bilateral cooperation agreement was signed in 1993, and in 1999 the Pskov Regional Trade Union Council joined the agreement. -0-