Global Business Meeting with Russia conference opens in Slovenia.

LJUBLJANA, May 16 (Itar-Tass) -- The Global Business Meeting with
Russia conference has gathered 220 representatives of businesses from 26
countries.
The event is organised by Slovenia's Foreign Ministry and the Horaris
international organisation.
The participants in the conference will exchange their experience in
the Russian market. They will discuss the role of Russian companies in the
global economy and ways of overcoming the global financial crisis.
"Slovenia's government is convinced that in near future Russia will
play a major role in the revival of the world economy," Slovenia's Foreign
Minister Samuel Zbogar said at the opening session. "This conference will
be a good platform to exchange experience and views," he said. "The
participants will establish new useful contacts."
The General Director of Russian Post /Pochta Rossii/, Alexander
Kiselev, the Vice President of Russia's Railroads /RZD/ Avtandil
Forgiladze and the head of the MP Synodal Division for Church and Public
Relations Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin are among the conference
participants.
The conference will continue its work over Monday and Tuesday.


.Medvedev to meet with Ukraine's businesses over his official visit.

MOSCOW, May 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev told
media on the eve of his official trip to Ukraine, which starts on Monday,
that he plans to meet with representatives of Ukraine's big businesses to
give impetus to active cooperation.
"Seriously speaking, I believe we should give certain impetus at the
governmental level," he said.
He said that talking to Ukraine's businesses "will be very useful,
especially because many contacts were frozen, and in certain cases we have
claims /some of them are being called off now/ about how Russian
investments were treated in the past."
Medvedev explained that situation by the annoyances which had been in
Ukraine's government.
"We need to get out of that situation and to ensure most favourable
investment climate," he said. "This is the reason why I would like to meet
Ukraine's businesses."
"I believe, the governments should give impetus, but the direct
management of investments and projects from governments is not productive,
especially when we are speaking about private investors," Medvedev said.
"It would be best if businesses and investors attract each other."
"I have been dealing with business for ten years, and I know that it
is much better not to interfere."
"However, state governance and bureaucracy will find ways to
interfere, no doubt about it," he said with a smile.
"Governments should protect investments," he said. "There is a well
known concept of a government, that it should be like a night watchman,
thought it may be an exaggeration," he said. "Government should be
watching, and business elites should be establishing and developing
business contacts."


.Iran, Turkey, Brazil agree on Iran's nuclear problem - Turkey FM.

TEHRAN, May 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Iran, Turkey and Brazil have achieved
agreement on Iran's nuclear problem, Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu said on Monday.
"We have reached agreement after the 18 hours' negotiations," he said.
An official statement may be published on Monday morning after the
presidents of Iran and Brazil and the prime minister of Turkey have
discussed details of the agreement, Davutoglu said.


.30 pct Finnish entrepreneurs to raise investments in Russia - poll.

Helsinki, May 17 (Itar-Tass) -- Over 70 percent of entrepreneurs from
Finland working in Russia believe in the growth of Russia's economy, the
Finnish-Russian Chamber of Commerce (FRCC) said in its report on a poll.
The FRCC polled 301 Finnish and 161 Russian entrepreneurs.
"Finnish companies believe that Russia's economy may regain the
pre-crisis level, and three percent of the surveyed said they expected the
growth to be sufficient," the Chamber said.
About 30 percent of Finnish businesses represented in Russia plan to
build up their investments in this country, and 44 percent Russian
respondents /nine percent more than last year/ were sure the economy would
grow. The percentage of those who fear a new wave of the crisis has
dropped from 29 to 16 percent.
About 37 percent of Finnish respondents said they had increased export
to Russia, 38 percent said their export operations remained on the same
level, and 42 percent of Finnish companies doing business in Russia have
registered certain production growth.

-0-kar


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