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CEOs
FROM WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM MEMBER COMPANIES MEET PUTIN AND DEPUTIES IN ST.
PETERSBURG: 11/6/2007 (MaximsNews.com,
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June 2007 –
St
Petersburg, Russia -- Over 150 international CEOs from the World
Economic Forum member companies met for an off the record discussion with Vladimir
Putin, President of the Russian Federation at the exclusive World
Economic Forum Russia CEO Roundtable which was held in partnership with the XIth
St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.
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discussions with President Putin were “unusually open” said
one of the participants.
The
CEOs also saluted the “freshness” and “openness” of the discussions
during the two private sessions held with top Russian cabinet members including
both First Deputy Prime Ministers Sergei Ivanov and Dmitry
Medvedev, Minister of Economic Development and Trade Herman
Gref and Minister of Finance Aleksey Kudrin.
At
the plenary session entitled “Competitive Eurasia – Space for Trust”,
which among others included President Putin, First Deputy Prime
Minister Medvedev, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan
Nazarbayev, Director–General of the WTO, Pascal Lamy,
the President of the EBRD Jean Lemierre and EU Trade
Commissioner Peter Mandelson, Klaus Schwab
noted that “the meeting had created a much better understanding of Russia and
had helped to create a framework for dialogue and cooperation.”
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President
Putin emphasized Russia’s interest in “sustainable
development based on trust”. The World Economic Forum has brought to St
Petersburg 150 top global CEOs to discuss Russia’s ever important role in a
globalized world. Reflecting on the collaboration between The World Economic
Forum and St. Petersburg International Economic Forum Klaus Schwab
said “We are like two brothers”.
The
World Economic Forum has been engaged in Russia since 1991 and has held regional
meetings at regular intervals in Moscow ever since. President Vladimir
Putin personally took part in the World Economic Forum in Russia in
2001 and 2003 and First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
led a record 50 member delegation to the last Annual Meeting in Davos, which
included Minister of Economic Development and Trade Herman Gref
and Valentina Matvienko, Governor of St. Petersburg.
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