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Fri, 07/11/2008 - 11:56
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Vice PM Ivanov to discuss in Ufa reconstruction of Ural highway

MOSCOW, July 11 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Vice Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov on Friday will make a working visit to Ufa where he will hold a meeting on issues of reconstruction of the Ural highway and a visiting session of the colleguim of the Federal Air Transport Agency(Rosaviatsiya).

Sources in the vice prime minister's staff told Itar-Tass that at the first meeting the issue of prospects for the development of one of the largest federal highways - M-5, more widely known as the Ural highway, will be considered. Its length is over 1,800 kilometres. The motor road runs through the territories of the Moscow, Ryazan, Penza, Ulyanovsk, Samara, Orenburg and Chelyabinsk regions, as well as the republics ofMordovia, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan.

It is planned to make this highway in the future an internationaltransport corridor that will link China, Kazakhstan, Russia and Europe.

The federal target-oriented programme "the development of the Russian transport system in 2010-2015" envisaged the road's reconstruction. A sumof 140 billion roubles is planned to be allocated for the purpose.

According to the Transport Ministry, only 35 percent of the highway at present meets the requirements, and 14 percent of bridges on it are in anunsatisfactory condition.

Transport Minister Igor Levitin and head of the department for road traffic safety of the Russian Interior Ministry Lieutenant-General ViktorKiryanov are expected to take part in the meeting.

During the second half of the day Ivanov will hold a visiting session of the colleguim of the Federal Air Transport Agency. "The agenda includes two items - the procedure of transfer of airports of regional and local importance to the ownership of Russian Federation constituents and raising effectiveness of the system of fuel support in civil aviation," the sourcetold Itar-Tass.

In accordance with the federal law adopted in October 2007, aerodromes of airports of regional and local importance are to be transferred to the ownership of Russian Federation constituent entities, and the financing oftheir property management as a rule is the task of the concessionary.

It is recommended to finance measures of modernisation and reconstruction of the aerodrome complex at the expense of the airport operator and from funds of a given Russian Federation constituent in compliance with the terms of the concession agreement. If the airport is part of the Russian national airport network, a number of works - construction, modernisation and reconstruction may be funded from thefederal budget.


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