Next Meeting of Iss Partners to Be Held in Moscow
Posted on: Wednesday, 26 January 2005, 21:00 CST
MOSCOW. Jan 26 (Interfax) - The next meeting of the space agency chiefs the of participants in the International Space Station project will be held in Moscow, Russian Space Agency spokesman Vyacheslav Davidenko told Interfax on Wednesday.
"At their Montreal meeting, the heads of space agencies of participants in the ISS project [Russia, the U.S., the EU, Canada, and Japan] accepted Russian Space Agency head Anatoly Perminov's offer to conduct the next meeting in Moscow," Davidenko said.
The ISS multilateral coordination council is working in Montreal at the moment.
According to Davidenko, the date of the Moscow meeting has not yet been set.
The space agency chiefs meeting in Montreal were to sign a cornerstone document defining the further fate of the ISS, its construction deadline and operation, as well as the participation of all partners in the project, he said.
As was reported earlier, Russia intends to raise the issue of modifying the procedure of financing its Progress and Soyuz spacecraft launches, which after the U.S. Space Shuttle tragedy on February 1, 2003, have been shouldering the burden of supporting the ISS.
For details, see the Interfax-Military News Agency newswire.
Source: Daily News Bulletin; Moscow - English
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