MOSCOW. March 24 (Interfax) - All ministries and agencies should prepare a specific plan of action on the integration of Crimea into the state economic, financial, and legal systems of Russia in the nearest future, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said.
"We need to work out specific, consistent steps aimed at full-scale integration of Crimea and Sevastopol in the state, economic, financial, and legal systems of our country so that people in Crimea should have the same opportunities, rights and guarantees as all Russian citizens," Medvedev said at a meeting on the socio-economic development of Crimea and Sevastopol.
Medvedev reiterated that all government officials and heads of federal authorities bear full responsibility for the situation in Crimea and demanded that ministries and agencies prepare and submit a specific plan of actions covering the period until the end of this year in the nearest future.
Medvedev also ordered the preparation of a federal target program on the socio-economic development of Crimea before the end of the first half of this year, retreating that this federal program may later become a state program.