Meeting with deputy prime ministers.
Excerpts from Dmitry Medvedev’s opening remarks:
I have signed a Government directive on future supplies of Russian gas to China via the Eastern route. This document provides for a plan of measures on state support for the construction of all gas transportation facilities required for the Eastern route, including the Power of Siberia trunk gas pipeline. This will make it possible not only to increase gas exports to the People’s Republic of China but also to provide gas more quickly to Eastern Siberia and the Far East.
The plan envisages the construction of several facilities for the production of gas at deposits in Yakutia and the Irkutsk Region as well as its processing and transportation.
Specialists will compile a schedule for the development of the Eastern route’s transport infrastructure. Normative documents must be prepared as well. A special interdepartmental working group will monitor all this work.