Putin took part in the meeting with the Business Advisory Council APEC – View

In Lima, a meeting of APEC leaders with members of the Business Advisory Council forum, it was attended by President of Russia Vladimir Putin.

Leaders gathering for a meeting, in front of the conference centre were greeted by the host of the summit, the President of Peru Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. Before this event, Putin and the end held a separate meeting, but for photographers and videographers they again exchanged greetings and shook hands, and allowed him to take some pictures, reports TASS.

BCS is composed of three representatives of the business community from each of the APEC economies, appointed by the heads of state and government. This body is intended to promote the forum business approaches to regional interaction.

Russia is represented by the head of the company “Basic element” Oleg Deripaska, head of the Russian direct investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev, the head of VTB Bank Andrey Kostin.

Before the meeting with the leaders of the members of the BACS produced its report on pressing issues and submit it to the attention of the heads of state and government. This year’s report is entitled “Qualitative growth and development of human potential.”

multi-page text consists of twenty sections. Among them, in particular, support the multilateral trading system and the development of a free trade area in the Asia Pacific region, support of small and medium entrepreneurship and expansion of SMEs ‘ access to Finance, enhancing food and energy security, promotion of productivity of labour resources, to support the development of urban infrastructure, the simplification of the processes of the Internet and the digital economy, the increasing mobility of skilled workers.

After the sessions, the leaders will continue to discuss the issues put forward by the BCS, in separate groups. In section the President of Russia will work, the leaders of Canada, Taiwan and Papua New Guinea as well as several businessmen.

For discussion they will be offered “the issues of attracting long-term investment, strengthening the financial stability, trade development,” said the presidential aide Yuri Ushakov.