MOSCOW, March 30. /TASS/. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed the decree to approve a draft program for economic cooperation between the governments of the Russian Federation and Kyrgyzstan in 2018-2021, a respective document was released on the government’s website on Friday.

"By signing the decree, the Russian side approves the draft program for economic cooperation between the government of the Russian Federation and the government of the Kyrgyz Republic in 2018-2021," the explanatory note said.

The draft program determines the main goals and tasks of expanding economic cooperation between the countries and the mechanism of their implementation.

The decree was submitted by Russia’s Economic Development Ministry following the 19th meeting of the Intergovernmental Russian-Kyrgyz Commission on trade, economic, scientific, technical and humanitarian cooperation on February 17, 2017.