Gazprom’s Board of Directors’ ordinary meeting is slated for 28 September 2004, 3:00pm Moscow time. The meeting agenda will be as follows:

• Summoning an extraordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting of Gazprom due to a projected takeover of Rosneft;
• Auditing gas, condensate and oil reserves at Gazprom-owned fields;
• Fulfilling the plan of the Gazprom Group’s non-core and unefficient assets divestiture;
• Shifting over to an investment stage within and boosting the charter capital of the International Consortium for the Ukrainian Gas Transmission System Operation and Development;
• Increasing the charter capital of the Kaunass CHP;
• Reviewing the progress in technical inventory of and state registration of rights for Gazprom’s immovable property.

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