Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Transport Minister Igor Levitin
At the meeting Mr Putin and Mr Levitin discussed subsidized shipments to the Far East, the airport in Vladivostok, and the ring road around Sochi.
The Commission decided to preserve the current meat quota allocation mechanism in 2010.
“Relations between our countries have been progressing. Unfortunately, the global economic crisis has affected our economic ties, but the general dynamics is positive.”
“Energy cooperation, in particular, the future of the South Stream project, was a major topic of our talks. Up until now, Russia and Austria have been reliable and long-standing energy partners.”
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin
Mr Putin and Mr Yakunin discussed railway shipments, investment plans for 2010, and the work load of Transmashholding and the Urals Railway Carriage Plant.
Funding for the restoration work at the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP is being provided in a timely manner and under strict state control.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin conducted a meeting of the State Border Commission
“We expect to launch a common foreign trade control system, validate the Union Customs Code, finalize the shifting of the checkpoints to the outer border of Belarus and significantly simplify the procedure on the Russian-Kazakh border between January 1 and July 1, 2010.`”
“The required level of APG utilization should be no less than 95% by 2012. Oil producers that do not fulfill this requirement and continue to burn it off in flares will have to pay huge fines for excessive air pollution.”