Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday will devote the whole day to the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. He will speak at a plenary meeting and hold a series of meetings with businesspeople, ITAR-TASS reports.
Medvedev will open the main program of the forum at the plenary meeting, which, as RF presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich said, would be devoted to post-crisis development of the world economy and is called “We have changed.”
“The president’s program includes several meetings with the business community,” Dvorkovich said. In particular, “Medvedev is expected to meet with representatives of energy companies after the Global Energy session, at which the future of the market of natural gas will be discussed,” he said. “Next, the head of state will have talks with executives of the world’s largest financial companies that will be on the consultative council for forming an international financial centre in Moscow,” he continued. “Then, he will meet with technological innovation companies, whose executives will enter the Council of the managing company of the Skolkovo Foundation,” Dvorkovich noted.
Medvedev will participate in the ceremony to award the Global Energy Prize. It is an independent scientific award, the only prize in the world given for fundamental research and inventions providing new opportunities in the development of power generation. It was founded in November 2002, and the first award-giving ceremony took place in St. Petersburg on June 15, 2003. More than 20 scientists from eight countries, half of them Russians, have become its laureates since. This year the prize has been awarded to two academicians – Ukrainian Boris Paton and Russian Alexander Leontyev.
Medvedev will also hold a number of bilateral meetings, in particular, with Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov, Prime Minister of Slovenia Borut Pahor and Secretary General of the League of Arab States Amr Moussa.
