Gazprom’s Management Committee (MC) examined yesterday work organization related to holding the Company’s annual General Shareholders’ Meeting (GSM).

The MC decided to submit for Gazprom’s Board of Directors’ approval proposals to hold the Company’s annual GSM on June 25, 2004, in Moscow as well as to compose a list of persons entitled to take part in the GSM based on the Shareholders’ Register filed by the end of May 7, 2004.

The MC approved:

• Composition of the Preparatory Commission for Conducting the annual General Shareholders’ Meeting, headed by Mikhail Sereda, Head of Gazprom’s Management Committee’s Administration.
• GSM preparatory measures
• Measures on preparation and publication of the Gazprom Group’s Annual Report for 2003

The MC commissioned the Preparatory Commission for Conducting the annual General Shareholders’ Meeting to prepare relevant materials on the Meeting timetable, to be submitted for Gazprom’s Board of Directors’ approval.

The MC also approved and submitted yesterday the issue of participation of the MC members in managing the companies whose shares are owned by Gazprom, for the Company’s Board of Directors’ approval.

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