Agenda for the October 2, 2009 meeting of the Presidium of the Government of the Russian Federation

1. Assessing the results of the of State Guarantee Programme to Provide Free Healthcare for the Citizens of the Russian Federation in 2008.

Speaker: Tatyana Golikova, Minister of Healthcare and Social Development of the Russian Federation

2. Draft Federal Law On Introducing Amendments to the Law of the Russian Federation On Employment in the Russian Federation.

Speaker: Tatyana Golikova, Minister of Healthcare and Social Development of the Russian Federation

3. Results of the National Best Maintained City of Russia Contest in 2008.

Speaker: Viktor Basargin, Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation

4. Reviewing the distribution of subsidies from the 2009 Federal Budget to the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation to build roads in new low-rise and apartment block residential neighbourhoods.

Speaker: Viktor Basargin, Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation

5. Signing agreements between the Government of the Russian Federation and the European Community on funding and implementing border cooperation programmes within the framework of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI).

Speaker: Viktor Basargin, Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation

6. Draft Federal Law On Introducing an Amendment to Article 11 of the Federal Law On Days of Military Glory and Remembrance Dates in Russia.

Speaker: Anatoly Serdyukov, Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation

7. Draft Federal Law On Introducing Amendments to the Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation to Tighten Control over the Use of State Symbols and Illegal Wearing of Uniforms.

Speaker: Alexander Konovalov, Justice Minister of the Russian Federation

8. Draft Federal Law On Introducing an Amendment to Article 1 of the Federal Law On the Temporary Ban on Human Cloning.

Speaker: Tatyana Golikova, Minister of Healthcare and Social Development of the Russian Federation

9. Signing an agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Abkhazia on mutual visa-free travel by citizens of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Abkhazia.

Speaker: Andrei Denisov, First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation

10. Disbursing budget allocations out of the Emergency Response Reserve Fund of the Russian Government to the Stavropol Territory and the issue of government housing certificates to address the consequences of torrential rains and flooding on the territory of the city of Nevinnomyssk in June, 2008.

Speaker: Sergey Shoigu, Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergency Response and Liquidation of the Aftermath of Natural Disasters