Sci conf on RF-UK trade, econ relations to open in St Pete.

ST PETERSBURG, October 13 (Itar-Tass) - The history of and prospects
for trade-and-economic relations between Russia and Britain will be the
subjects of discussion at an international conference that opens at the UK
Consulate-General here on Wednesday.
The scientific conference has been organized by the St Petersburg
State University (SPBGU) History Department in conjunction with the
British Consulate and the city's Association for International Cooperation.
An official at the conference organizing committee has told Itar-Tass,
"Those present at the conference are to examine problems connected with
the historical past of Russo-British trade-and -economic relations and
touch upon the present-day state of these relations, paying attention to
possible prospects in their future development".
Reports are to be made at the conference by prominent Russian
specialists in the history of the United Kingdom from SPBGU (department
for international relations), the St Petersburg State University of
Technology and Design, and the Immanuel Kant State University
(Kaliningrad). The conference is to be attended by St Petersburg-based UK
Consul-General William Elliott, and Chris Gilbert, Director of the
Russo-British Chamber of Commerce (RBCC) in Russia.
Russian and British historians, economists, diplomats, and public
figures are to discuss the role of trade-and-economic factors in
Anglo-Russian relations in the 19th-20th centuries, the history of
regional cooperation, the reflection of contacts between Russia and
England in the correspondence and memoirs of eminent politicians of the
past. Gilbert prepared a report on the role of RBCC in the development of
relations between the two countries over the past century.