December 26, 2008

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

Yesterday Governor of Ugra, member of the State Council Presidium Alexander Filipenko in Moscow participated in the joint meeting   of the Security Council and State Council of the Russian Federation.

It was held at the  Georgievski Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace and was chaired by President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev. The agenda included the only  issue "On Policy of the Russian Federation on the space of the Commonwealth of Independent States".

The head of the State in his speech determined the basic avenues and priority goals for strengthening and expanding cooperation between countries on the post-Soviet space, concrete joint actions to overcome the consequences of the world financial crisis, proposed new ideas of security strengthening. President made an accent on the necessity of development of mechanisms of actions coordination: "Interregional links can become an important factor to counteract crisis phenomena, which have already produced negative impact on economy of CIS countries". He spoke about creation of new institutes and mechanisms of the development after the financial crisis is finished. "The crisis in any case will be finished, and we should be ready to launch new projects with our neighbors", - emphasized Dmitri Medvedev. In his opinion, the coordinated work should be done to improve the legislation which regulates international and interregional cooperation, to create conditions for expansion of foreign trade, joint development of nature resources and creation of inter-governmental infrastructure.

In the evening at the Andreevski Hall of the Kremlin Governor and with his wife  participated in  the reception oh behalf of the head of the State in connection with coming New Year. That day Governor of Ugra returned to Khanty-Mansiysk.