18 March 2004 16:13
Putin chairs conference on problem of providing housing for armed forces
Moscow, 18 March: Russian President Vladimir Putin held a conference today on issues connected with providing housing
for servicemen.
Opening the conference, the president said: "I issued instructions some time ago [for people] to think about a
modern and effective way of resolving one of the main social problems in the armed forces, that of providing housing for
servicemen."
He suggested that the [conference] participants should sum up "the interim result of that work" and take a
look at the proposals that have been drawn up by the Defence Ministry.
Igor Shuvalov, the deputy head of the Russian president's administration; German Gref, economic development and
trade minister; Defence Minister Sergey Ivanov; Aleksey Kudrin, finance minister; Col-Gen Anatoliy Grebenyuk, deputy
defence minister; Lyubov Kudelina, deputy defence minister, and Vladislav Putilin, deputy economic development and trade
minister, took part in the conference.
[ITAR-TASS news agency] |
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