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April 14, 2009
Chairman of Board of Eurasian Economic Community Business Council M. V. Slipenchuk takes part in EAEC business forum – Investments, Innovations, Integration
The forum held on April, 14 at the International Trade Centre in
Moscow was organized by Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC)
Business Council Non-Commercial Partnership with in the active
involvement and support of the EAEC Integration Committee, the
Russian Association of Financial Industrial Groups, the Russian
Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, the Russian Chamber of
Commerce and Industry, METROPOL Group, Eurasian Development Bank
and Astana-Finance. IA Interfax, Izvestia newspaper, RBC and the
telecommunications company MIR acted as information partners.
The task of the forum was to consolidate the business communities
of EAEC member countries given the current global economic
crisis.
The forum was attended by EAEC General Secretary T.A. Mansurov,
Chairman of the Coordination Council of “EAEC Business
Council” Non-Commercial Partnership and President of the
Russian Association of Financial Industrial Groups O.N. Soskovets,
President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
A.N. Shokhin, Vice President of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and
Industry G.G. Petrov, Chairman of Board of EAEC Business Council
and Head of METROPOL Group of companies M.V. Slipenchuk, Eurasian
Development Bank Chairman I.V. Finogenov, Astana-Finance Chairman
K.K. Islamov and other representatives of public and international
organizations and financial and industrial structures of EAEC
member states.
The forum participants discussed the most effective forms and
methods to implement projects during the crisis, including the
principles and regulations of the EAEC Anti-Crisis Fund and the
selection criteria for priority projects of interregional
significance. All the speakers observed the need to set up a
customs union in the shortest possible timeframe. The development
of cutting edge technologies was also mentioned as an important
factor to improve the economic efficiency of EAEC member
countries.
On the basis of the Forum results and the proposals put forward, a
final resolution will be accepted and recommendations prepared on
the development and consolidation of cooperation between EAEC
countries in view of today's conditions.
Note
Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC)
The
Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC) is an international economic
organization formed in October 2000 to ensure the dynamic
development of member countries by coordinating their social and
economic transformation through the effective use of their economic
potential. The Community is made up of Belarus, Kazakhstan,
Kirgizia, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan; observer countries are
Armenia, Moldova and Ukraine.
The EAEC was set up for the purpose of effectively promoting the
formation of a Customs Union across the single economic space of
the member states and coordinating their approaches to integration
into the global economy and international trade system. The
organization is vested with functions related to the setting of
common external trade borders between countries and the development
of a single foreign economic policy, tariffs, prices and other
elements of a functioning common market.
EAEC Business Council Non-Commercial
Partnership
EAEC Business Council Non-Commercial
Partnership (EBC NP) was created in September 2008 and is a
non-commercial organization set up to involve business circles in
the integration processes carried out under the EAEC. The founders
of the partnership are: the Integrated Committee of the Eurasian
Economic Community; the Russian Association of Financial Industrial
Groups; the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs; the
Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Tens of companies and
organizations from member countries that are genuinely interested
in establishing economic ties and developing cooperation across the
Eurasian economic space have expressed their intention of joining
the EBC NP.
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