The meeting of the Council of the International Congress of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (ICIE) opened on Saturday in Thessaloniki, Greece with introductory business and social events. Mr. Kristjan Verbič, the PanSlovenian Investors’ & Shareholders’ Association (VZMD) President, participated at the meeting after receiving a personal invitation form the organizers of the event. This time too, Mr. Verbič successfully presented the activities and opportunities offered by the VZMD international business-investor programs: Invest to Slovenia (investo.si) and International Investors` Network (investo.international).
ICIE is an international non-government organization bringing together national associations in the field of industry and entrepreneurship from 28 European and Asian countries, and collaborating with over 100 common-interest associations, companies and other organizations. The meeting focused on the possibilities of cooperation between ICIE and the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), in particular in the field of transportation in logistics. In addition to that, special attention was paid to the presentation of projects and suggestions from the members of the Industrial Development Fund (IDF).
In the Monday’s formal part of the meeting of the ICIE Council, the attendees were addressed by presidents and other prominent representatives of the aforementioned organizations, who spoke about specific topics. The 88 participants from 21 countries of Europe, Asia, and the USA included mostly heads of entrepreneurial and economic associations/chambers, employers’ associations, and global enterprises operating in the field of transportation and logistics. Among others, the VZMD President had constructive talks with the Director of the Apollonteam, Mr. Apollon Tompoulidis, Director of sustainable development at the Russian Federation and Eurasian Office of the European Institute for Export Compliance, Ms. Olga Asulova, ICIE Conselor, Mr. Igor Ferkh, Vice-President of Woolim Holdings Co., Ltd., Mr. Soo-Keun Park, Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Mr. Nurbakh Rustemov, Representative of the interests of the ICIE in Primorsky region, Mr. Evgeny A. Rusetskiy , and the ICIE representative for the Asia-Pacific region, Mr. Kim Taekun.
A special mention goes to the reunion of Mr. Verbič with Mr. Dragomir J. Karić, member of the Serbian Parliament and academician, and Mr. Sasko Staninov. Mr. Staninov and Mr. Verbič had already met a litter over than a month ago in Skopje at the “Business Forum” and the reception accompanying the visit of the Slovene Prime Minister in Macedonia, while the meeting with Mr. Karić took place already in May 2015 in Baku, when at the meeting of the Board of Directors and the General Meeting of the International Foundation for Sustainable Peace and Development (IFSPD) Mr. Verbič was elected a member of this international organization, bringing together 36 member countries, mostly from the Black Sea and Caspian Sea region.
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