Gazprom Headquarters today hosted a working meeting between Alexander Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Robert Tyson, Ambassador of Australia to Russia.

The parties addressed issues as regards the APEC Australia 2007 Business Summit to be held in September in Sydney and Gazprom delegation’s participation in the event.

Robert Tyson stressed that the upcoming Summit would pay particular attention to the discussion of energy aspects for the Asia-Pacific region.

“Operations in the APEC region are a new crucial business activity of Gazprom abroad. Gazprom is intent on studying various possibilities for cooperation with APEC Member Economies, including in the form of asset swap arrangements,” stated Gazprom Deputy Chairman Alexander Medvedev.

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The intergovernmental Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum was established in 1989. APEC's Member Economies are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, PRC, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, USA, Vietnam. In 2007 a regular APEC Summit will be hosted and chaired by Australia.

Gazprom representatives participate in the work of APEC Business Summits on a regular basis.

The business community interests are promoted by the APEC Business Advisory Council. In pursuance of the March 16, 2007 Directive of the Russian Federation President, representatives of Gazprom, Basic Element and VNB were re-appointed as the ABAC Members from Russia for the 2007-09 period. Gazprom is represented in ABAC by Alexander Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee (ABAC Member) and Sergey Balashov, Deputy Head of the Foreign Economic Relations Department (ABAC Alternate Member).