During the visit by the Russian Federation Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to China, the Gazprom Management Committee Chairman Alexey Miller and the Irkutsk Oblast Governor Dmitry Mezentsev, members of the official Russian delegation, discussed in China the progress with the Angara Region Gasification Program placing an emphasis on the situation in the city of Bratsk. The parties marked the importance of the work done to prepare the draft Agreement between Gazprom and the Irkutsk Oblast Government.

The regional head expressed his gratitude for the programs proposed by SOGAZ Insurance Groupaimed at providing social support to the regional population, creating hemodialysis centers and the gratuitous transfer of medical equipment to a children’s hospital in Irkutsk as well as for the announcement of rehabilitation programs for handicapped schoolchildren.

Dmitry Mezentsev invited Alexey Miller to visit the Irkutsk Oblast this year. During the visit the Angara Region Government is supposed to produce proposals on the regional mineral resource base development and the oil and gas production infrastructure upgrade.