OREANDA-NEWS. June 15, 2007. The Gazprom Management Committee has hosted a working meeting between Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman, Gazprom Management Committee and Yoshiyuki Iwai, Director General, Natural Resources and Fuel Department, Natural Resources & Energy Agency, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry.

Within the visit Alexander Ananenkov and Yoshiyuki Iwai, Co-Chairmen of the Joint Coordinating Committee between Gazprom and Natural Resources & Energy Agency examined the progress with executing the Agreement of cooperation between Gazprom and Natural Resources & Energy Agency and approved a Working Plan of the Joint Working Group for 2007. Particularly, the Plan foresees provision of preliminary investigations for the project to create gas chemical production in Eastern Siberia as well as sci-tech cooperation program development.