A working meeting between Alexey Miller and Stanley Fisher

A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Gazprom’s Management Committee Chairman and Stanley Fisher, Citygroup International’s President and Citygroup’s Vice-Chairman, was held today at Gazprom’s Headquarters.

Alexey Miller informed Stanley Fisher of Gazprom’s development prospects, the start of the 2nd stage of the Company’s restructuring and the upcoming liberalization of Gazprom’s shares market. The parties discussed prospects of joint activities in financing Gazprom’s business.

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The Citygroup Holding Company is one of the world’s largest finance businesses. The company’s 2003 proceeds and net profits accounted for USD 94.7 billion and USD 17.9 billion, respectively. Citygroup is AA1 rated by Moody’s and AA rated by Standard&Poor’s.

Citygroup served as a co-arranger of a number of syndicated loans taken by Gazprom for the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline construction.

Member to Citygroup, the SSSB (Schroder, Salomon, Smith, Barney) Investment Bank acted in 2002 as lead manager for Gazprom-borrowed unsecured Eurobond loans worth USD 500 million and USD 700 million, respectively.

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