OREANDA-NEWS. The meeting of Bank ZENIT Council of Directors held on 5 February in Moscow decided to convene the Annual General Shareholder Meeting on 23 March.

The agenda of the Annual General Shareholder Meeting includes the following issues: approval of the Annual Report, annual accounts and the profit and loss statement for 2006; profit allocation based on performance in 2006; election of the Council of Directors and the Audit Commission; and approval of CJSC ENERGY CONSULTING/Audit as the Bank's auditor for 2007.

The Council of Directors recommended that the Annual General Shareholder Meeting should approve dividends for 2006 in the amount of RUR700 million. The amount does not include dividends paid to the shareholders last autumn based on the first 9 months 2006 results.