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17 thousand participants from 143 countries, 150 business events, more than 1,000 moderators and speakers, delegations of parliaments of 19 states, more than 100,000 sq. m. of the exposition area, 4,081 journalists and 593 signed agreements totaling 2.625 trillion rubles – this is the statistical "portrait" of the jubilee XXII St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, which was finished in St. Peterburg.
This year the SPIEF was held under the slogan "Creating an Economy of Trust". According to the unanimous estimations of participants and guests of the event, the Forum on scale and results reached a new level and was marked by new achievements. Guests from all over the world, representatives of international organizations such as the United Nations, IMF, OPEC, etc., have increasingly spoken at the forum that peace is changing, that it is necessary to live in the same economic space and find new points of pairing.
Participation in business events was attended by representatives of international organizations: Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, Secretary General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries Mohammad Sanushi Barkindo, Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Rashid Alimov, Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission Tigran Sargsyan, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Olga Algaherova, Deputy Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Kunesi Hiroshi, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Ocean Shamshad Akhtar, Secretary General of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization Michael Crisdes, General Secretary of the Forum of Gas Exporting Countries Yuri Sentyurin, President of the New Development Bank Kundapur Wiman Kamatkh, Permanent Secretary of the Latin American Economic System Javier Paulinich Velarde. Honorary guests of the forum were French President Emmanuel Macron and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
The central event of the Forum was the plenary meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Head of State noted: "Today we need not trade wars, and not even temporary trade truce, but a full-fledged trade world."
Orimi Trade Group of Companies has traditionally acted as a partner of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. The cooperation of Orimi trade and SPIEF continues since 2006, Greenfield tea and Jardin coffee are invariably official hot drinks of "Russian Davos". The statistical "portrait" of SPIEF-2018 can be supplemented with two more figures – during the time there were drunk more than 250,000 cups of Greenfield tea and almost 300,000 cups of Jardin coffee. Within the framework of the strategic partnership Orimi Trade organized business communication zones Greenfield-Jardin in the fields of SPIEF, where during all days of the Forum was held a global presentation of Greenfield tea and Jardin coffee in aluminum capsules. Here participants of SPIEF could communicate in an informal atmosphere and taste all grades of Jardin coffee and Greenfield tea in aluminium capsules.
Photo-report by Natalia Redkova