Danish trade representation set up in Yekaterinburg

Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel received a letter from the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Denmark to Russia Per Karlsen; Mr. Karlsen informed the Governor that the Danish Government decided to set up a trade mission in Yekaterinburg, the spokesperson for the Governor reports. The decision was made in response to the increasing interest the Danish business community has been taking in their prospective cooperation with Sverdlovsk Region entrepreneurs.

Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel met Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Denmark to Russia Per Karlsen in the government house today. Mr Rossel spoke on the growth in the fields of regional industry, wholesale and retail trade, and agriculture throughout the year. He also mentioned the ongoing renovation of the regional metallurgical, power engineering, and machine building enterprises. According to the Governor, the investments in Sverdlovsk Region businesses went up by 28% compared to 2005 and will have come to $5bn by the end of the year. A large

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Denmark in Russia Tom Risdahl Jensen informed Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin that a group of Danish delegates were planning to take part in Innoprom 2012. According to the Ambassador, the decision was taken thanks to the positive outcome of the Russian-Danish meetings that were held in Yekaterinburg in mid-March. The official also thanked the region’s Ministry for International and Foreign Economic Development for the organization of negotiations crucial to the Danish companies and of visits to the Urals-based

Mayor of Yekaterinburg Arkadiy Chernetskiy met the Kingdom of Denmark’s Embassy in Russia’s counselor for trade and economic relations to discuss the upcoming introduction of a Danish trade mission in Yekaterinburg as well as the prospects of some mutually beneficial cooperation in the field of trade and investment, the spokesperson for the city council reports. The counselor said most of the process technicalities will have been settled by the end of this year, and the trade mission will probably start operating at the beginning of 2008. Mr. Chernetskiy said he was prepared to provide all

Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel had a meeting with Deputy State Secretary of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland during his visit to Finland. The Governor informed the Finnish official that Sverdlovsk Region hosted fifteen foreign consulates at the moment and suggested that the Finnish authorities should consider introducing a consulate in Yekaterinburg. ‘Our experience has shown that the setting up of a country’s consulate usually boosts the development of the two areas’ trade and economic relations as well as all the other forms of cooperation,’ Eduard Rossel said. The