Head of EDB to take part in the Kazakhstan and Russia Interregional Cooperation Forum in Pavlodar
Almaty, 18 September 2012. The delegation of Eurasian Development Bank headed by Chairman of the Management Board Igor Finogenov will take part in the 9th Kazakhstan and Russia Interregional Cooperation Forum, which started its work today in Pavlodar. The forum will discuss innovation cooperation between the two countries. Marat Dzhaukenov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board who is in charge of investment projects, including those in Kazakhstan, will take part in the forum in addition to the Chairman of the Management Board.
Igor Finogenov will speak at the business forum’s plenary session Industrial Cooperation and Innovations in Interregional Cooperation between Kazakhstan and Russia. The head of EDB will tell about the Bank’s investment activities in Kazakhstan and his understanding of the country’s competitive advantages and opportunities for the improvement of its investment attractiveness. Heads of ministries and other governmental authorities as well as businesspeople from the two countries are expected to take part in the event.
The plenary session to be held on 19 September will discuss new mechanisms of interregional cooperation in the areas of sustainable development and high technology, innovation and industrial cooperation, and opportunities for the preparation and fulfilment of joint research and engineering projects. The presidents of Russia and Kazakhstan who have been patronising these events since 2003 plan to visit the session.
Nursultan Nazarbayev and Vladimir Putin are also waited for at the International Exhibition of Regions of Kazakhstan and Russia organised in the framework of the forum. Among other things presented at the exhibition, EDB will display a presentation of its investment projects in Russia and Kazakhstan, the main objective of which is to deepen integration between the two countries.
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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. 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 at https://www.eabr.org.