OREANDA-NEWS. June 26, 2009. Moscow has hosted the opening of the annual General Shareholders Meeting of Gazprom. Shareholders from Russia and a number of foreign countries are taking part in the Shareholders Meeting personally, through their trustees or in absentia. The Meeting participants represent the interests of the shareholders owning a total of 19311769091 shares, which is 81.58 per cent of their total number. As at May 8, 2009, the corporate Register of persons and legal entities entitled to participate in the Shareholders Meeting recorded 551866 corporate equity owners with 23673512900 shares.

Pursuant to the resolution of the Gazprom Board of Directors, Viktor Zubkov, Chairman of the Gazprom Board of Directors, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation has been appointed Shareholders Meeting Chairman. Attending the Shareholders Meeting are the following Members of the Board of Directors: Alexey Miller, Alexander Ananenkov, Burckhard Bergmann, Farit Gazizullin, Elena Karpel, Mikhail Sereda, Igor Yusufov.

The Meeting Agenda includes the following items:
Approval of the Annual Report;
Approval of the Annual Accounting Statements including Profit and Loss Reports (Profit and Loss Accounts);
Approval of profit distribution based on the year 2008 results;
On the amount of, time for and form of annual dividend payment based on the year 2008 results;
Approval of Gazprom’s auditor;
On remuneration to the Members of the Board of Directors and Audit Commission;
On ratification of interested party transactions to be potentially executed by Gazprom in future while carrying on usual business;
Election of the Gazprom Board of Directors Members;
Election of the Gazprom Audit Commission Members.

At present, Alexey Miller is delivering his Statement about the Company’s operating highlights over 2008.