Health and Social Development Minister Mikhail Zurabov informed Mr Putin on the financial provisions for raising public-sector wages as from September 1 of this year and reducing wage arrears.
Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin reported on the 2006 draft budget’s passage through the State Duma and informed the president on the G-8 financial ministers’ meeting that will take place at the end of this week in Washington.
Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov gave details of his upcoming visits to Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan and contacts between the Collective Security Treaty Organisation and NATO.
Mr Putin instructed Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov to draw up a timetable for the implementation of national projects in the social sphere.
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Excerpts from Transcript of Meeting with the Government Cabinet
September 19, 2005