The State Commission for Arctic Development Presidium will hold its meeting in Murmansk on March 9. The meeting will be chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, the commission's press service reported.

The main items on the meeting's agenda include discussing amendments to the state program Socioeconomic Development of the Russian Arctic until 2020 and the creation of an integrated transport infrastructure with an adequate fleet of vehicles in the Russian Arctic, as well as summing up the results of delivering goods to the country's northern territories in 2015.    

Representatives of the federal executive authorities, heads of Russia's constituent entities located in the Arctic and members of the business and academic communities have been invited to attend the meeting.