KEMEROVO, March 17. /TASS/. Problems of the national coal sector will be discussed on April 1 at a strategic session to be chaired by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilyov said at a coal industry meeting in Kuzbass.

"The strategic session on coal industry issues led by Russian Prime Minister [Mikhail Mishustin] will be on April 1," the minister said.

Reports on results of coal sector operations in the first quarter of this year will be prepared after the strategic session, Tsivilyov added.