The organizers of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (PMEF) rated the amount of agreements prisoners during his work. We are talking about several hundred agreements with a total cost of 3.8 trillion rubles. This was announced by the adviser to the President, responsible secretary of the organizing committee of PMEF Anton Kobyakov, his words leads TASS.
“Businessmen from all over the world, Russian businessmen on this forum have signed more than 800 agreements. The total amount of agreements 3 trillion 860 billion rubles,” he said. According to Kobyakov, this time the number of agreements became unprecedented and surpassed the results of 2019.
Also during a press conference, he added that 13 thousand people from 140 countries of the world were participants in the forum, RIA Novosti notes. “The number of participants who took part in the forum events amounted to 13 thousand people, 140 countries, 11 thousand Russian and foreign companies, 800 top companies are represented at the level of their leaders,” the cobbyts summed up.
On Friday, June 4, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin appeared on the form. “We are glad that after a forced break, we exactly in Russia take the first major international business event,” he began.
In the course of his speech, the President said that the decline in the global economy due to the pandemic was the biggest after World War II. “But it is already possible to say with confidence that the world economy is returning to normal life,” Putin stressed and recalled that the growth of world GDP this year is expected to be the maximum since the 1970s.
In 2021, the PMEF passes on June 2-5.