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The Russia – Belarus – Kazakhstan Business Dialogue and the Eurasian Economic Commission hosted their 2nd business forum in St. Petersburg. This year’s forum was entitled ‘Unified Economic Space: New Prospects of Industrial Development’. As in 2011, the business forum participants included the three heads of governments: D. Medvedev, M. Myasnikovich and K. Masimov.
The event was planned and managed by the Russia – Belarus – Kazakhstan Business Dialogue established in 2010 by the three countries’ leading business associations, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, the Belarus Confederation of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (Employers) and the Kazakh National Economic Chamber (‘Atameken Union’).
The discussion, featuring the Chairman of the Eurasian Economic Commission Viktor Khristenko, heads of the three business associations A. Shokhin, A. Kharlap and A. Myrzakhmetov and over 400 representatives of the three nations’ top companies, focused on the mechanisms to encourage industrial development, financial, fiscal and other forms of industrial cooperation support, its practical aspects, the promotion of individual projects etc.
The mission of the Business Dialogue is to ensure that the interests of business circles are efficiently taken notice of while developing a regulatory framework of the Customs Union and UES and building a constructive dialogue with the Eurasian Economic Commission.
To provide a regulatory framework for the business community within the UES, a Memorandum of Cooperation between the Business Dialogue and EEC was signed during the forum. Prospective lines of activity include:
Integration development and macroeconomics;
Entrepreneurial development;
Finance;
Industry;
Agriculture;
Mutual and foreign trade;
Technical regulations;
Customs;
Energy and natural monopolies;
Transportation and infrastructure;
Competition and antitrust.
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