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September 24, 2009
Head of METROPOL Group of companies and Chairman of the Board of Eurasian Business Council M. V. Slipenchuk took part in the Customs Union – EurAsEC Integration Breakthrough Investment Forum
The Customs Union – EurAsEC Integration Breakthrough Investment
Forum was held on September 24 in the city of Almaty (Kazakhstan)
under the initiative of the Eurasian Business Council, which
organized the event. Additional support for the event was
provided by the following participants: the Secretariat of the
EurAsEC Integration Committee, the Russian Chamber of Commerce and
Industry (TPP RF), the Association of Financial and Industrial
Groups of Russia, METROPOL Group of companies, the Astana Finance
JSC (AO Astana Finans), and the Eurasian Development Bank.
The Forum was held to further help strengthening cooperation
between the EurAsEC member states’ business communities, and
attracting investments as well as innovative projects under
the new favorable conditions that are being developed with the
accelerated creation of the EurAsEC Customs Union.
The Forum was attended by 210 representatives of EurAsEC member
states’ state administration agencies and non-governmental
organizations, as well as members of financial and industrial
business groups, scientists and the media.
The Forum was opened by the Chairman of the Coordination Council of
the Eurasian Business Council Non-Commercial Partnership and
President of the Association of Financial and Industrial Groups of
Russia, Oleg N. Soskovets. He noted that the question of the
Customs Union’s creation (which for now only includes three states
– Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan) has essentially reached its home
stretch.
EurAsEC General Secretary T. A. Mansurov emphasized in his
presentation that: “The political will of the heads of state and
practical steps being taken by the three nations’ governments will
ensure that the Customs Union is created one year ahead of the
schedule – in other words, by January 1, 2010. This event
marks a true integration breakthrough for the Eurasian Economic
Community.” He also noted that checkpoints would be removed
from the Russian-Belarus border as of July 1, 2010, and from
Russia’s border with Kazakhstan – on July 1, 2011.
Head of METROPOL Group of companies M. V. Slipenchuk, who is also
Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Business Council
Non-Commercial Partnership, reported on the Business Council’s
objectives and first operating results. He especially
emphasized that the Eurasian Business Council was assisting the
implementation of specific projects. “Thus, among other
things, we are ready to announce today that the East Siberian
Metals Corporation and the Ulbinsk Metallurgical Combined have
signed a cooperation agreement on a beryllium ore processing
project at the Yermakov deposit.”
The Forum also witnessed the signature of a Memorandum of
Understanding between the Eurasian Business Council and the
Eurasian Development Bank.
The Forum’s work will be summarized in a series of recommendations
on ways to develop and strengthen the EurAsEC member states’
business cooperation in contemporary conditions.
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