The Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry held a concluding meeting of the MCCI Committee, established for promoting Foreign Economic Activity.
The Committee occupies a singular place among the MCCI’s Public Associations , Headed by Mr. Sergey Cheryomin, the Head of the Department of Foreign Economic Activity and International Relations of Moscow, and its co-Chairman, the Vice President of the MCCI, Mr. Suren Vardanyan. The Committee includes Heads of Commissions for cooperation with partners from different countries - the so-called “Country Commissions of the MCCI”. The Chamber has close relations with more than 50 countries.
The main purpose of the meeting was to summarise the work during a very difficult year for international business contacts and to discuss the main activities for the next year.
Mr. Vardanyan noted that last year was very difficult for conducting the Foreign Economic Activity. Unprecedented sanctions’s pressure from the largest countries of the world, the destruction of established supply chains, the redirection of transportation and commodity flows along new routes, the ban on providing legal and consulting services for Russian entrepreneurs by Western companies - all this has affected the work of the Commissions of the MICCI. “Accordingly, we should not withhold business information regarding what is taking place in different countries, what is the prevailing frame of mind among entrepreneurs, what personnel changes are taking place in different public structures that are engaged in contacts with foreign countries,” - said the Vice President of the MCCI.
In this regard, the speaker urged the participants of the event to more actively use the main information resource of the Chamber - the official website, where the Commissions’s informative materials have been collected and are
regularly updated. According to Mr. Vardanyan, it is necessary to disclose relevant information related to the business climate in various countries, inform about regulations issued there that affect the interests of the Russian business. Another direction of work of the Country Commissions may involve informing our compatriots living abroad.. They are now caught in an informational vacuum and require enhanced communication.
Mr. Vardanyan discussed in detail the main areas of each participant’s work, followed by a discourse on the prospects of Foreign Economic Activity in different countries and sectors of economy.
The event was held with the support of the Moscow Government and the Moscow Department of Economic Policy and Development