Vladimir Putin spoke at the plenary
session of the 22nd St Petersburg International
Economic Forum.
May 25, 2018
18:00
St Petersburg
St Petersburg International Economic Forum plenary
session. Photo: TASS
Foreign heads of state and government,
heads of major Russian and international companies and banks,
leading experts and politicians from around the world were invited
to the forum. Honorary SPIEF guests include French President Emmanuel
Macron and Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe.
The plenary session participants also include
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde as well as Vice President
of the People's Republic of China Wang Qishan.
The forum’s theme this year is Creating
an Economy of Trust.
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Excerpts from transcript of St Petersburg
International Economic Forum plenary session
Panel moderator, Editor-in-Chief of Bloomberg
News John Micklethwait: Thank you very much. It is a great pleasure
to be here.
This is, as, I think, you can all see,
an extraordinary panel. I think we have roughly a third
of the world’s GDP. We have maybe a quarter of its
population, though with Madame Lagarde here we can perhaps claim we have
a 100%.
I have searched in vain to find
a panel that includes as many world leaders on one panel, even
if you look at it from an Asian perspective. It is very rare
to find the leaders of… such leaders from China, Japan and Russia
in one room.
I think the coming together is
a tribute to Mr Putin’s energy and power of persuasion. But
it may also just be a sign of Donald Trump’s unique ability
to bring people together. (Laughter. Applause.) Without
him…although he could be… he likes surprises… and he often changes.
The format is each of the panellists
will come up and deliver some brief opening remarks, and then we will
have a discussion between all of us. The aim is
for the first remarks to be relatively brief so we can have a full
and frank discussion afterwards.
The first panellist to talk is our host,
the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr
Emmanuelle Macron, Mr Shinzo Abe, Ms Lagarde, Mr Wang Qishan,
Ladies and gentlemen, friends,
I am delighted to welcome all of you
to the 22nd St Petersburg International Economic
Forum, Russia.
The St Petersburg meetings have become
a good tradition. We value the forum’s atmosphere of trust
and openness. We have just exchanged opinions, as they say,
on the sidelines, about the forum, and Ms Lagarde just told
me that she was pleasantly surprised by this friendly atmosphere.
Such a discussion and an informal dialogue are particularly important today when the international political, economic and trade system is undergoing a major strength test, and the environment for doing business and making investments, as well as everyday life, going through dynamic changes too.
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Such a discussion and an informal dialogue are particularly important today when the international political, economic and trade system is undergoing a major strength test, and the environment for doing business and making investments, as well as everyday life, going through dynamic changes too.
READ MORE AT
http://tributetoapresident.blogspot.com/2018/06/st-petersburg-international-economic.html
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