OREANDA-NEWS. The Headquarters of Gazprom today hosted a meeting focused on issues in relation to deeper cooperation between Gazprom and Russian regions, and involving the executive power leaders from 18 Republics, Krais and Oblasts of the Russian Federation.

The meeting participants discussed the development prospects for the Russian Federation gas industry, the progress with the Gasification Program for Russian Regions over 2005 to 2007 as well as matters with regard to optimizing the gas supply structure and improving the gas payment discipline.

The executive power representatives also visited a key production unit of Gazprom - the Central Gas Flow Dispatching Department.

At the last stage of the meeting, on March 22-24, the Gazprom top managers and Russian Federation executive power representatives are to visit gas production regions.