EDB to take an active part in the CIS International Economic Forum

14 March 2013

The Bank’s representatives will co-facilitate the forum’s sections Investments, Innovations — a Real Economy and From a Free Trade Zone to New Levels of Integration.

Almaty, 14 March 2013. Eurasian Development Bank’s (EDB) delegation headed by Victor Bolyasnikov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, will take part in the CIS International Economic Forum Today’s Challenges and Prospects of Integration within the Commonwealth. The forum will take place on Friday in Moscow, simultaneously with the regular session of the CIS Economic Council.

The forum will discuss prospects and mechanisms for strengthening economic cooperation and issues associated with the performance of the Free Trade Zone Agreement and interaction in the framework of the Single Economic Space.

The participants will include deputy heads of governments of the CIS member countries, ministers and top officials of the CIS ministries and other authorities, representatives of integration associations, chambers of industry and commerce, banking institutions, business associations, industrial unions, research and expert centres, and scientific institutions. The forum is expected to have about 1,500 participants this year.

The plenary session will include presentations by Igor Shuvalov, First Deputy Chairman of the Russian Government, Sergey Lebedev, Chairman of the CIS Executive Council and CIS Executive Secretary, Andrey Kostin, Chairman of the Management Board at VTB Bank and President of the CIS Finance and Banking Council, Tatyana Valovaya, Member of the Board and Minister for Macroeconomics and Principal Directions of Integration at the Eurasian Economic Commission, and members of the CIS Economic Council.

Vladimir Yasinsky, Managing Director for Research and Member of the Management Board at EDB, will co-facilitate the section Investment, Innovations — a Real Economy and Evgeny Vinokurov, Director of the EDB Centre for Integration Studies, the section From a Free Trade Zone to New Levels of Integration.

The CIS International Economic Forum has been for many years the largest and most authoritative venue for the public discussion of integration in the CIS. Its participants are offered an outstanding opportunity to learn about the most important investment projects in various industries and the financial and banking system, share their opinions about the future of business cooperation, and prepare proposals as to how lift barriers to the development of business in the CIS. The agenda includes plenary sessions, special sections and round tables, and a show of investment projects.

Additional Information

The Eurasian Development Bank is an international financial institution founded by Russia and Kazakhstan in January 2006 with the mission to facilitate the development of market economies, sustainable economic growth, and the expansion of mutual trade and other economic ties in its member states. The EDB’s charter capital exceeds US $1.5 billion. The member states of the Bank are the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Republic of Tajikistan.

Read more about the EDB at https://www.eabr.org

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