On the banks of the Neva started Petersburg International Economic Forum. An hour ago, a solemn opening ceremony. Political leaders and top managers of major companies – Russian and foreign – are beginning to look for common ground and to plan new joint projects.
On the banks of the Neva started Petersburg International Economic Forum. An hour ago, a solemn opening ceremony. Political leaders and top managers of major companies – Russian and foreign – are beginning to look for common ground and to plan new joint projects.
This year, visitors from abroad than in the past, despite sanctions and the overall international tension. Nobody wants to miss the chance to restore business contacts.
The first thing that catches the eye immediately upon entering the forum – plate-pointers for the delegations and journalists this year, not only in Russian and English, but also in Chinese. And it’s very revealing detail.
speaks for itself and statistics – broken record last year – on the 19 th Forum participants came from 114 countries, nearly 6000 persons: heads of states and governments, heads of major corporations and leading financiers, and what’s interesting – the geography has expanded primarily by members of the Asia-Pacific region is, of course, reflects the trend shift in the world economy is in that direction.
“Given the fact that measures are being taken at the site of the SCO and BRICS event, this year’s feature is the participation of a large number of delegates from countries belonging to the Association. As the number of media, we have already exceeded previous records – more than 2000 Media representatives participating in the forum “, – said the director of the foundation,” St. Petersburg International Economic Forum “Alexander Stuglev.
Panel session business forum of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, it includes Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, already it passed early this morning, even before the official opening. We discussed investment cooperation in the SCO framework, to strengthen and expand that must, of course, the Eurasian Economic Union. The conversation took place in a larger format, in addition to members of the organization participated in the discussion and the representatives of Pakistan – have observer status.
On July 9, Ufa will meet the leaders of the SCO, the Eurasian Economic Union and the BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Another novelty of this year – will be held here for the first time a panel session of the BRICS Business Forum, it will also become one of the brightest episodes of the Economic Forum.
Discuss would, of course, the new BRICS development bank headquartered in Shanghai and registered capital of $ 100 billion. He decided to create a BRICS summit a year ago, now come to an end, and the preparatory work is expected to launch this ambitious project – a competitor and the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, it will be announced at a summit in Ufa.
“Our government encourages Chinese business circles that they actively participated in the cooperation within the BRICS and the SCO. It’s the country with the new, rapidly developing economies. And for us it is important that both the BRICS and the SCO played special role in the international arena “- said the chairman of the SCO Business Council Yu Ping of China.
This year, the business interests were stronger than any political disagreements. If in the past because of the hard political pressure by the West on their businesses to participate in a forum of 30 business declined, but now only two failure. Among confirmed their participation in this year – the head of the German retail chain Metro, oil magnates BP, Total, Royal Dutch Shell, the Italian energy giant Enel, French Banking conglomerate Societe Generale. The influential Financial Times writes: unofficial ban on visiting Washington forum this time was not – and recalls the visit to Russia US Secretary of State John Kerry, calling it a signal that Washington wants to restore the dialogue with Moscow.
Planned separate seminars on the development of economic relations between Russia and the representatives of Italy, Greece, Finland, Japan, India, Middle East. The first meeting of Vladimir Putin at an economic forum with representatives of Russian industrial enterprises is expected to begin in an hour. Today is scheduled, and a number of bilateral meetings with foreign businessmen and politicians, the most discussed in the foreign media, it is even called sensation forum – a successor to the Crown Prince and Defense Minister of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman. It is expected that the visit of Prince, zasnimayuschego third place in the hierarchy of the Saudi government, is intended to unlock the relationship between the two countries, frozen because of the opposing positions on Syria.
St. Petersburg Economic Forum, it is called Nevsky summit is different this year is also the new format of the discussions – scheduled to debate the participants to their views to each other can bring even those who have different points of view.
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