The summit’s agenda covered efforts to strengthen regional stability and security, joint efforts to combat terrorism, extremism and separatism, measures to prevent organised crime and drug trafficking, and current international issues.

Dmitry Medvedev and Asif Ali Zardari discussed current issues in regional security and prospects for developing bilateral cooperation.

Opening the meeting, Dmitry Medvedev said that organisational and personnel reforms are priorities in the ministry’s transformation, as are employees’ wage and social benefit provisions.

The 25^th EU-Russia summit announced practical launch of the Partnership for Modernisation initiative.

Dmitry Medvedev congratulated personnel and veterans of Border Service of Russia's Federal Security Service on their professional holiday, Border Guards Day.

The President set the goal of bringing the share of modern arms in the Russian armed forces up to at least 30 percent by 2015.

All outdated analogue systems should be replaced with digital systems as part of the programme to establish a common command system for troops and weapons at tactical level by 2012. This applies above all to military units in the North Caucasus Military District, the President said.

The meeting examined the situation in the North Caucasus.

The Russian and Ukrainian Presidents, Dmitry Medvedev and Viktor Yanukovych took part in a meeting of the Russian-Ukrainian Interstate Commission.

The President was briefed on the ongoing investigations of the terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro and the explosions at the Raspadskaya Mine in the Kemerovo Region.

Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov briefed Dmitry Medvedev on operation to free Moscow University tanker.