PM opposes setting up state corp for SIBUR development
KRASNOYARSK. Feb 15 (Interfax) - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev does not see any need for the creation of a state corporation for the development of SIBUR, considering an organization like that a dead end.
"A state corporation, needed or not needed? From an ideological standpoint, it seems to me that it is not needed, because generally all our attempts to resolve all problems with the creation of a state corporation is a dead-end development street, it is partly a soviet approach," Medvedev said Friday in an address to a section of the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum devoted to the development of Siberia.
"Some kinds of instruments [for Siberia's economic development) are needed. Is the form of state corporation going to be imparted to these instruments? I strongly doubt it," the prime minister said.
Medvedev said he agrees that "specialized development institutes, that work in the Siberian, in the Far East direction are needed anyway by virtue of the particulars of our state."
