A delegation of METROPOL Group led by Head of the Group M.V. Slipenchuk is attending the 6th Baikal International Economic Forum in Irkutsk.
The 6th Baikal International Economic Forum (BEF) was formally opened at 09:30 Irkutsk time on September 7, 2010 with an inaugural address by Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation S.M. Mironov, who read out a greeting from President of the Russian Federation D.A. Medvedev. The opening ceremony was also attended by Prime Minister of Kazakhstan К.К. Masimov, Governor of the Irkutsk Region D.F. Mezentsev, and state officials from Poland, Japan, and the Republic of Korea. Head of METROPOL Group, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Fund for Protection of Lake Baikal M.V. Slipenchuk made a report on Public-Private Partnership in the Development of the Baikal Region at a plenary meeting entitled Siberia, Land of Opportunities; Irkutsk, a Point of Support. The Forum’s official delegation visited a large-scale exhibition of innovative projects displayed at three pavilions, and also participated in the Presentation of the Expedition Project “Mirs in Baikal”.
Exhibition booths of METROPOL Group and the Fund for Protection of Lake Baikal, General Partners of the Baikal Forum, were set up in the BEF central pavilion. The Fund acted as the initiator and organizer of an exposition of two manned submersibles, Mir-1 and Mir-2, on the square near the official event pavilion of the Baikal International Economic Forum. A press briefing on the results of the “Mirs in Baikal” International Scientific Research Expedition is scheduled for September, 8, the Forum’s second day, on the square near the Mirs exposition.