BUSINESS MISSION OF RSPP RUSSIAN DELEGATION TO THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA, JOHANNESBURG,

OCTOBER 23-28,  2006

RUSSIAN – SOUTH AFRICAN BUSINESS FORUM

“EXPO-RUSSIA”

Organized by:

Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and Joint Stock Company "Zarubezh-Expo" at support of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation, Ministry of natural resources of the RF,   Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, Institute of Africa, Embassy of the Republic of South Africa in Russia, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of South Africa, Investment agencies of the Republic of South Africa.

The purpose of the mission

is strengthening of business connections and adjustment of direct partnership between the entrepreneur structures of Russia and the republic of South Africaand the states of the African continent and Indian Ocean basin.

The representatives of Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Russia, Government of Russia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Science, Ministry of Economic Development ofRussia, Ministryof Natural Resources of Russia, and also the interested commercial structures are invited to participation.

The program of staying supposes round tables, presentations of the Russian companies, working meetings on themes of interests.

Themes of round tables:

1. Prospects of expansion of trade and economic cooperation between Russia and the Republic of South Africa. Actual and perspective directions and forms of business cooperation.

3. Development of inter-regional connections between subjects of the Russian Federation and provinces of the Republic of South Africa.

4. Investment cooperation. "Special economic zones in Russia as a new element of the Russian-South-African cooperation".

We are convinced that the more the Russians know about modern Republic of South Africa, the faster the investments and trade grow in both directions, and more successfully our cooperation in the field of culture and public life is developed.