30
November
2005
General Director of IFC Metropol, Mikhail Slipenchuk, and General Director of East-Siberian Metals Corporation, Oleg Mikhaylenko, participated in the Russo-Japanese Economic Cooperation Forum held in Tokyo on November 21.
The forum was dedicated to Russian President
Vladimir Putin’s visit to Japan.
President of the Russian Union of Industrialists
and Entrepreneurs, Alexander Shokhin, greeted the participants by
saying that never in recent memory had Russian business leaders
visiting Japan been represented at such a high level.
Participants in the forum included the heads of
large Russian companies, such as Gazprom, Sberbank, Rusal, and
Svyazinvest.
The Russian organisers were the Russian Chamber
of Commerce and Industry, and the Russian Union of Industrialists
and Entrepreneurs.
Participants from Japan included representatives
of Nippon Kedianren, and the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and
Industry.
East-Siberian Metals Corporation met with a
number of representatives of Japanese business on the sidelines of
the forum, including the two biggest Japanese companies, Sumitomo
Corporation, and Japan’s Banc of International Cooperation (JBIC).
The topic of discussion was these companies’ possible participation
in the Ozernoe lead-zinc mine development project.
