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During the previous day’s meeting, Dmitry Medvedev and Viktor Yanukovych discussed outcomes of the informal meeting of the CIS Council of Heads of State, as well as issues of Russian-Ukrainian energy cooperation.

Dmitry Medvedev congratulated officers and veterans of Russia’s security agencies on their professional holiday and on the 20^th anniversary of the existence of modern Russia’s special services.

Following the meeting, the CIS heads of state adopted a joint declaration and signed a number of documents.

Dmitry Medvedev and Nursultan Nazarbayev discussed the Russian-Kazakhstani economic partnership.

Dmitry Medvedev and Almazbek Atambayev discussed topical issues of Russian-Kyrgyz cooperation.

Dmitry Medvedev signed Executive Order on appointing Anton Siluanov to the post of Finance Minister.

Dmitry Medvedev and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy met with members of Russia-EU Industrialists’ Round Table to discuss development prospects for trade and economic relations between Russia and the European Union.

Dmitry Medvedev presented the Banner of the Russian Federal Guard Service to the service’s director Yevgeny Murov.

The meeting with leaders of parliamentary parties addressed wide range of issues concerning the improvement of the political system.

Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting that addressed mechanisms for delineating powers between federal, regional and municipal authorities, as well as suggestions on financial allocations to the regions.

The President presented banners to atamans of the Central, Don, Volga Yeniseysk, Trans-Baikal, Irkutsk, Kuban, Orenburg, Siberian, Terek, and Ussuriysk Cossack military societies. All these Cossack military societies have been entered in the State Register.

Letters of credence were presented by ambassadors of Angola, Bahrain, Belarus, Columbia, Costa Rica, Djibouti, Great Britain, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, Laos, Luxembourg, Spain, Syria, and Tunisia.