"We worked on the strategy for the development of the Russian aviation industry rather long, for half a year. This is the fourth variant," Mr. Khristenko said. "It is currently being coordinated by government departments."
According to Mr. Khristenko, the document will also be discussed at the Presidium of the State Council session.
"Under this strategy, the aviation industry's output by 2015 will be trebled," Mr. Khristenko said.
The production of the civil sector in the industry alone will stand at $6 billion by 2015, and labor productivity will grow 3.5 times.
"The strategy presupposes the concentration and organization of efforts and also of financial and industrial capital to make possible the positioning of the Russian aviation industry in a very narrow row of world players on the global market," Mr. Khristenko said.
He also told Mr. Putin that the High Level Group on the Common Economic Space (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine) is scheduled to meet in Moscow February 25.
By the end of 2004, the work on drafting 91 agreements on the Common Economic Space was completed, Mr. Khristenko said.
The meeting will focus on 29 documents that the four countries' leaders considered to be priorities at their previous summit.
