OREANDA-NEWS. On September 03-05, 2008 Chairman of the Board of Directors of MMC Norilsk Nickel Vladimir Potanin and General Director – Chairman of the Management Board Vladimir Strzhalkovsky are to visit Norilsk, where they will hold working meetings with the management and employees of the Company’s Polar Division, reported the press-centre of Norilsk Nickel.
 
The Company’s top officials will meet with key persons of the Norilsk city administration and the administration of Taimyr municipal district. The program of their visit also includes a number of field trips to the Company’s production sites: Oktyabrsky Mine, Kolesnikov Nadezhda Metallurgical Plant, Talnakh Processing Plant, Polar Transport Branch, etc. 
 
Vladimir Potanin and Vladimir Strzhalkovsky together with the management of the Polar Division will discuss strategic issues of the Company’s long-term production and business development.  At the Management Board meeting that will be also held in Norilsk, the Company’s executives will consider such issues as MMC Norilsk Nickel performance in the first half of 2008, energy assets spin-off into a stand-alone company, industrial safety and labor protection.
 
At their meetings with the Norilsk city administration, the Company’s top officials plan to discuss the issues of social and economic partnership and joint implementation of socially important projects.