Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation - Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District Yuri Trutnev held a meeting in Vladivostok on the preparation of the Eastern Economic Forum - 2024. Organizational issues and the progress of preparation for the forum were discussed. “Less than two months left before the start of the IX Eastern Economic Forum. The importance of the forum for the macroregion is difficult to overestimate. Millions of investments came to the Far East thanks to the forum. Every year thousands of people fr om dozens of countries come to the EEF. The vector of Russia's foreign economic relations is turned to the East, and the forum is held in its very center, in the heart of the Asia-Pacific region. This places special demands on our work,” Yuri Trutnev opened the meeting. “As always, we are preparing for the forum very carefully. The general mood is the same as before any Eastern Economic Forum: we will jointly try to ensure that it remains a place wh ere new decisions are made that will contribute to the development of our Far East. Everyone who prepares the EEF must answer the question of how to make the Forum better, more interesting, and more meaningful,” summed up Yuri Trutnev. More than 7 thousand people from 62 countries and territories took part in the VIII Eastern Economic Forum. The forum included more than 100 sessions of the main business program. The largest delegations were sent by China, India, Myanmar, the Philippines, Laos, and Mongolia. On the sidelines of the forum, 373 agreements were signed for a total amount of 3 trillion 818 billion rubles.
