According to head of the Federal Service on Financial Monitoring (Rosfinmonitoring) Victor Zubkov, the schedule of the meeting will be "rather busy."
"We will discuss organizational issues, which is quite normal for any initial plenary meeting," Mr. Zubkov said.
The participants plan to discuss the methodology of mutual assessments, mandates of EAG working groups, candidatures of new observers, to listen to the report of the World Bank and to adopt the EAG working schedule for 2005.
All six EAG member-countries and observers will participate in the meeting.
Eurasian Group was founded on the Russian initiative. The constituent conference was held in Moscow on October 6, 2004. The group includes Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, China, Russia and Tajikistan.
Its objective is to promote international standards of prevention of criminal income legalization and terrorism support, subject to regional particularities; to develop and carry out activities related to the sphere of financial intelligence; to evaluate the effectiveness of anti money-laundering measures; and to analyze trends in criminal financial activities.
Victor Zubkov was elected Chairman of EAG during the constituent conference.
