Small Business Forum of SCO and BRICS Regions will open in Ufa

UFA, 17 October 2018. /Bashinform News Agency, Rozaliya Valeeva/ translated by Tatiana Aksyutina/. The 4th Forum of Small Business of the Regions of the SCO and BRICS Member States will be held in the Ufa Congress Hall on October 18-19.

The event will include a plenary session, an exchange of business contacts of businessmen from regions of the SCO and BRICS countries participating in the event, presentations, and exhibitions of business representatives, as well as roundtables and expert sessions in various areas.

The business program of the forum will include events dedicated to the development of trade and economic relations - the roundtable “Multi-format trade in the SCO and BRICS” and the expert session “Small businesses and excisable goods”, the press service of the State Committee RB for Trade and Consumer Protection informs.

The event will be moderated by Nikita Kuznetsov, Director of the Department for the Development of Domestic Trade, Digital Marking of Goods and Legalization of Product Turnover of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, and Vladlen Maximov, President of the Small Format Trade Association.

The heads of regional authorities responsible for trade issues, representatives of the subjects of the Russian Federation engaged in economic development, trade enterprises, and public organizations were invited to participate in the roundtable and an expert session.

The main goals of the forum are to create conditions for accelerated development of entrepreneurship through establishing partnerships between large and small companies in the regions of the SCO and BRICS countries, strengthening and developing interregional relations, concluding new agreements with the regions of the SCO and BRICS countries, attracting investments and increasing the number of joint business projects.