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Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Government to draft an Energy Security Doctrine.

Dmitry Medvedev held a Security Council meeting on developing modern telecommunications systems for national defence and security needs and maintaining law and order. The Security Council members discussed a draft of the main state policy directions in this area until 2020, and the steps needed to implement them.

Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting to draft and approve additional fire safety measures for strategic facilities.

The agenda of the President’s upcoming visits to the United States and Canada and the G8 and G20 summits were discussed.

Opening the meeting, Dmitry Medvedev noted that the shipbuilding industry needs to undergo more intensive technological modernisation in order to meet the domestic market’s demands and expand exports.

The President congratulated the meeting’s participants on the ratification by the Russian parliament and Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada of the Russian-Ukrainian agreement extending Russia’s lease of a naval base and presence of its Black Sea Fleet on Ukrainian territory for 25 years.

Dmitry Medvedev held a Security Council meeting on preventing national security threats arising from global climate change.

Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting with the permanent Security Council members.

Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting with the permanent Security Council members.