Preparatory Meeting on 3rd Inter-Governmental Russia-Myanmar Joint Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation and Business to Business Virtual Matching holds

A Preparatory Meeting on the 3rd Inter-Governmental Russia-Myanmar Joint Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation and Business to Business Virtual Matching was held via video conferencing at the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations yesterday afternoon. The meeting was led by U Than Aung Kyaw, Deputy Minister for Investment and Foreign Economic Relations from Myanmar side and Mr Andrei Iunak, Counsellor of Economic and Commercial Affairs from the Embassy of the Russian Federation to the Republic of the Union of Myanmar from the Russian side.
In the meeting, the Deputy Minister discussed follow up activities of bilateral trade and investment promotion which were proposed by both sides during the visit of delegation led by State Administration Council Chairman Prime Minister of Provisional Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar to the Russian Federation last week of June 2021. He also updated on the preparatory work for the 3rd Inter-Governmental Russia-Myanmar Joint Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation and Business to Business Virtual Matching scheduled to organize in December and September respectively this year. Then he proposed the priority sectors to be discussed in upcoming Virtual Business to Business Matching and proposed the potential participants from public and private sector.
After that, Mr Andrei Iunak, Counsellor of Economic and Commercial Affairs discussed the arrangement of the 3rd Inter-Governmental Russia-Myanmar Joint Commission and Business to Business Virtual Matching, and the priority areas from Russian side in order to promote bilateral economic cooperation.
The meeting was joined by the director general of the Foreign Economic Relations Department of the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations and officials as well as Professor Mr Vadim Saltykoskiy, Deputy Chief of Committee for Economic Cooperation with Asian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. — MNA