Moscow hosted the meeting between Anton Kobyakov, Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation, and Atanas Krastin, Bulgarian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Russian Federation.
Anton Kobyakov invited representatives of Bulgaria’s business community to join the Russian Investment Forum (14–15 February, Sochi), the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) (6–8 June 2019, St. Petersburg), and the Russian Energy Week (1–5 October 2019, St. Petersburg), as well as to turn their attention to other events hosted in Russian regions and outside of Russia that offer regular meetings between business leaders, development institutes and local authorities throughout the year.
“Russia and Bulgaria maintain contacts on a high level. That’s why we encourage representatives of Bulgaria’s business community and public business associations to form partnerships with us and we could come up with a participation format for small and medium businesses of your country at the biggest events in Russia. For example, we could consider Bulgaria’s participation as a guest country of SPIEF 2019. This status provides an opportunity to place the country’s pavilion at the Forum venue. I am confident that such a format will help demonstrate Bulgaria’s opportunities for foreign investors from Russia and any of the 143 countries traditionally participating in SPIEF to the Forum participants,” emphasized Anton Kobyakov.
The parties agreed to continue joint consultations upon determining Bulgaria’s participation format in 2019 events.