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BelCCI chairman makes part of Lisbon-Vladivostok Initiative Board

Vladimir Ulakhovich. An archive photo

MINSK, 4 November (BelTA) – Chairman of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BelCCI) Vladimir Ulakhovich has joined the Board of the Lisbon-Vladivostok Initiative - Working Group for a Common Economic Space from Lisbon to Vladivostok, BelTA learned from the BelCCI press service.

The Board has also included Former Economic Delegate for the Austrian Chamber of Commerce Dietmar Fellner, President of Confindustria Russia Ernesto Ferlenghi, CEO of the German Eastern Business Association Michael Harms, President of the CCI France Russie Emmanuel Quidet, Representative of the German-Russian Forum Alexander Rahr, Chairman of the Board of the German-Russian Chamber of Commerce Matthias Schepp, President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Alexander Shokin, President of the AEB, Vice President of Schneider Electric Johann Vanderplaetse. President of Schneider Group Ulf Schneider has been elected Chairman of the Board.

The first Board meeting of the Lisbon-Vladivostok Initiative took place as a video conference on 3 November. Participants discussed key achievements in the development of the common economic space from Lisbon to Vladivostok, strategic areas of work in 2021, and possible signing of the memorandum of cooperation with the Eurasian Economic Commission.

The Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry joined the Common Economic Space from Lisbon to Vladivostok Initiative (Lisbon-Vladivostok) in May 2018. The initiative was founded by businesses, business associations and think tanks of the EU and EAEU member states in 2015 for a multi-level dialogue between the European Commission and the Eurasian Economic Commission to harmonize all necessary procedures in technical and customs regulations, logistics, tax and financial procedures, environmental protection, digitalization and others.

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