RF-Kazakhstan Commission on Baikonur resumes work after 13-years break

The commission will study implementation of the Russia-Kazakhstan agreement of 1994 on basic principles and terms of using the Baikonur cosmodrome, of the agreement on the rent of the complex of the same year, and of other Russia-Kazakhstan agreement, as well as other joint documents.
Shuvalov is ordered to confirm members of the Russian part of the Commission, by including in it representatives of ministries and authorities and to discuss with the Kazakh side how the commission would be functioning, the government's press service reported referring to the order signed by the prime minister, Itar-Tass informed.
According to the document, the Federal Space Agency will be responsible for organisational and technical aspects of the Russian part of the Commission's work.
Earlier, Head of Kazakhstan's space agency, Kazkosmos, Talgat Musabayev, said the country's Deputy Prime Minister will be the commission's co-chair.
The city of Baikonur and the Baikonur cosmodrome make the Baikonur complex, which Russia has been renting from Kazakhstan for the period to 2050. Beginning from 1999, Russia is paying annual rent fees of 115 million dollars. In January of 2004, the rent was prolonged to 2050.
The city of Baikonur is Kazakhstan's territorial and administrative unit, which functions under conditions of the rent. For the period of rent of the Baikonur complex, the city is granted a status, which is equal to that of Russia's city with special security regime for organisations, enterprises, as well as for civilians. Russia's president appoints Baikonur's mayor. Russia's federal budget allocates annually over one billion roubles to the city's budget.
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