07
July
2008
MBC Corporation Director General O. Mikhaylenko took part in a working visit of the Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the Siberian Federal District A. Kvashnin to the Republic of Buryatia.
Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in
the Siberian Federal District A. Kvashnin staged a working visit to
the Republic of Buryatia on July from 2 to 4. He was accompanied on
the visit by MBC Corporation Director General, General Director of
the Transbaikalia Development Corporation O. Mikhaylenko.
The visit was conducted in order to assess the progress of
investment projects being implemented on the territory of the
republic within the context of the general Siberian Development
Strategy. On July 4 a meeting was held in the Republic of
Buryatia’s Governments Hall on the subject of the comprehensive
socioeconomic development of Republic of Buryatia. Besides the
already-named officials, the meeting was attended by Irkutsk Region
Acting Governor I. Yesipovsky, representatives of the
Administration of Republic of Buryatia, and the heads of the SUEK
OJSC, the Buryatzoloto OJSC, the Baikal Timber Company OJSC, the
Golden East – Siberia LLC, the Orekitkan Mining Company LLC, the
Hujir Enterprise LLC, and others. The meeting concluded with the
signature of an Agreement on creating conditions for a Public
Private Partnership in the course of the implementation of
investment projects focused on the Republic of Buryatia’s
socioeconomic development.
After the meeting, a press conference was staged for federal and
regional media representatives in which A. Kvashnin summed up his
two-day visit’s results. He outlined his vision for the ways to
develop Siberian and Transbaikalia territories, and spoke of the
need to improve the level of cooperation between regional
authorities and investors. Republic of Buryatia President and
Government Chairman V. Nagovitsyn, and Irkutsk Oblast Acting
Governor I. E. Yesipovsky also took part in the press
conference.
In the course of the press conference, the heads of the MBC
Corporation, the state-owned Russian Technologies corporation, and
the Rusinvestpartner CJSC told reporters about their companies’
plans to implement various projects in the Republic of Buryatia. In
particular, O. Mikhaylenko and V. Potylitsyn announced that on the
previous day, MBC Corporation and the Rusinvestpartner CJSC signed
a Memorandum of Intent concerning the acquisition by
Rusinvestpartner of a participating interest in the Ozernoye and
Kholodninskoye projects.
