Russia invites ASEAN business circles to participate in SPIEF this year, says Roscongress

MOSCOW, April 2. /TASS/. Official and business circles of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) have received an invitation to participate in St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) that will be held on June 6-8, press service of Russia's Roscongress Foundation, the organizer of the forum, said in a statement on Tuesday. The 16th Russia-ASEAN Joint Planning and Managing Committee meeting and the 17th Russia-ASEAN Joint Cooperation Committee meeting took place earlier in Jakarta. The events were attended by Russia’s Ambassador of Russia to ASEAN Alexander Ivanov. "During the meeting, the parties discussed the results and prospects for cooperation between Russia and ASEAN. The Roscongress Foundation presented the initiatives with ASEAN that were implemented in 2018 during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. ASEAN official and business circles received an invitation to participate in SPIEF, which will be held on 6-8 June 2019, and EEF (Eastern Economic Forum), which will be held on 4-6 September 2019 in Vladivostok," the statement said. The participants of the meeting stressed that further cooperation at the key business events in Russia will contribute to the development of full-fledged cooperation and the strengthening of partnership between Moscow and ASEAN, Roscongress added. Special attention was paid to the discussion of Russia’s proposal for the Russia-ASEAN Economic Forum to be held in November 2019. Read more