On the Forum organized by the Ministry of economic development and trade of Russian Federation and the Ministry of Economics of Japan and with the participation of METROPOL Group, gathered more than 500 representatives of the Russian and Japanese business circles and the governments of two countries. The Russian governmental delegation included Prime Minister M. Fradkov, minister of the industry and power engineering V. Hristenko, minister of transport I. Levitin and minister of informational technologies and communication L.Reyman.
M. Slipenchuk performing his speech at the Forum paid attention to investment mechanisms of state-private partnership in the Russian Federation and to its value for development of domestic business. He underlined the opportunities of the Japanese investments into the Russian economy and industry, and also steady growth of cooperation of METROPOL Group with business circles of Japan.
During the Forum METROPOL Group signed 2 agreements with the Japanese companies:
- the Memorandum for the cooperation with United Partners Securities in development and realizations of the project of trading of the Russian companies equities in Japan
- the Agreement on business partnership with Capital Partners Securities according to which the parties will to cooperate in the real estate projects
While the Forum the delegation of METROPOL Group negotiated on financial and mineral and raw projects with other leading Japanese companies.
METROPOL Group organized, February, 28, the solemn reception in honor of the Forum participants, that was visited by more than 300 persons.