Alexander Ankvab met with the Russian President’s aide on interaction with Abkhazia and South Ossetia Vladislav Surkov.

The President received the head of the Abkhazian trade mission in the Russian Federation Oleg Bartsits, the executive director of the International cultural and business center of Abkhazia Oleg Lakoba and the director of development of the center Petr Bereza.

President Alexander Ankvab received Rosneft Vice Presidents, Legal Support to Business and Capital Construction, Igor Maydannik and Andrey Votinov, who had arrived in Abkhazia to participatate in the fifth Russian-Abkhazian business forum.

Alexander Ankvab held a meeting on preparedness for holding the fifth Russian-Abkhazian business forum. It was attended by the First Vice Prime Minister Indira Vardania, Vice Prime Ministers Alexander Stranichkin and Beslan Eshba.

Today, 6 November, a delegation from the Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Abkhazia, in Belgium on a working visit, met representatives of the Chamber of Commerce in Brussels. The sides discussed a wide range of issues affecting various aspects of the development of trade-relations between Abkhazia and Belgium, such as: the creation of official representative bodies for Belgian companies in Abkhazia; the establishment of joint Abkhaz-Belgian companies; the exchange of delegations for participating in various international events held in Abkhazia and Belgium etc...