dear ladies and gentlemen , the russian emirati trade and economic cooperation in recent years has shown no progressive development. the factors complicating it somehow the covid-19 pandemic are any other. it cannot affect specific numbers and indicators, which are constantly growing. the heads of our countries the president of russia

partners friends are in constant personal contact, i am sure that their direct dialogue and direct supervision from the russian esmirat side, as the first persons in our countries of trade and economic interaction will give, its tangible increase in the very near future, hopefully, today's discussion will also contribute to this to a large extent. his highness shows us an example, moreover, he is the current world economic policy of interaction with partners of a constructive attitude towards

infrastructure significant economic projects that are being developed by his highness to the president of the united arab emirates for russia's invariably priority place in economic cooperation with abu dhabi and i am sure that the new infrastructure , significant the projects that began to be implemented this year and are being prepared for implementation in the near future will indeed be implemented without any delay , there is not the slightest doubt about this. the trade turnover between russia and the united arab emirates is growing annually and, moreover, they set records at the end of last year 2022, the trade turnover between our countries

increased by almost 68%, and amounted to about $ 9 billion, a declaration of strategic partnership was signed between our countries, which covers various areas cooperation, including in the field of high-tech industry and investments, his excellency of the russian federation denis aleksandrovich manturov recently headed a delegation at the international exhibition dedicated to cooperation in the military-technical sphere, you can take any vector in our interaction. and here is a constant growth from year to year in terms of business economics and business administration. now finishing my opening remarks and, uh, i would like to convey, uh, the floor to denis valentinovich

mantova, but first of all. i will allow myself , as a moderator, to formulate to denis valentinovich some questions and answers to which we are sure will be very important to our emirati friends. for more than 10 years, as i have already said, since 2012, the russian emirati commission on trade economic and psychological cooperation has been headed by the russian side. during this time, what is your huge contribution without an extra bag, you do not need it, and nevertheless, our bilateral relations have reached new quality. which from your point of view, denis valentinovich, the common task facing our countries in the current conditions. what areas of cooperation do you consider as a priority and finally? will we be able to successfully overcome certain

external challenges together with our american partners. i have no doubt about this denis alekseevich, but now i would like to listen to you, i beg you. thank you very much for the opportunity to answer those questions that were raised, well, first of all, turnover. we must create the foundation to further increase its overall foreign economic activity. for this is the industrial cooperation. and the conditions that exist today in the emirates of course, my

colleague the minister of economy uh of the united arab emirates and the gentleman for his part will probably have to add, but i can say that uh our companies are demonstrating great interest in creating on their production sites for, and not only the supply of their products to the emirates market, but i mean the creation of a hub for e, we consider deliveries of our products to the country in this way. uh, the investments of our russian companies that create capacities, and conditions for this have been created on the part of our partners. here we are from this morning, uh, with his cleansing. uh, with a shake on

loosened, they opened the uh booth for the emirates at the st. petersburg forum and noticed that everyone present at this booth. uh , a representative of a company exhibiting, and his own idea, uh, that could be of interest to our russian partners. this is precisely the correct focus with point of view of attracting russian investment in the emirates through the creation of industrial expansion. economic and in addition to what we have in recent years, so a good foundation for interaction in

the industrial sphere has been created, i mean the field of mechanical engineering, auto aviation, this is a direction in the field of pharmaceuticals, and the digital industry. i believe that, uh , our company retains its interest and potential in the future, uh, the roof of the lenin board for cooperation, and using actually those, uh, conscious conditions of our emirates of course, we are also not waiting for colleagues. uh investment. here are our partners. it was traditional and in recent years our colleagues have invested. in various spheres of the economy of our country, these investments have justified themselves.

uh, reflected, including in the figures of our trade turnover, so i'm coming back. how did i start that the industrial operation is the key to the foundation for the subsequent increase in involvement, and our trade turnover, but it would be impossible to achieve all this in the future, and in the treatment of volumes and investments and trade turnover without e- cultural humanitarian component. that is, uh. i only see how. firstly, our partners are interested in the applications of our creative teams of various u.s. from our theaters. we, uh, did uh, film screenings. eh, and this is also

a guarantee for a comfortable interaction , the formation of more technical friendships than the actual one. uh, that contributes to our strategic level of relationship. and you absolutely correctly said that with regard to what personally a sheikh mohammed the president of the united arab emirates have paid great attention to the creation of e. the foundations of our interaction, having friendly relations with our president, supporting the bilateral initiative and business and interaction in the political arena. i think that all this together will form a further basis for development.

but, uh, andrey, uh, stepnev. i think that he will support us, and we are in his part, but the formation, leaving the signing on and until the agreement is agreed. free trade ozone between us eurasian economic union and the united arab emirates. this is such an additional element. and on a more comfortable flow of goods flows between our countries. and, of course, completing my comment regarding the questions asked on a very important moment or direction is

logistics. today we are solving these problems, but in order to increase the volume of supplies , it will be possible to expand the e-transport corridors, and here our emirati friends are actively involved, meaning in transport. national currencies alternative currencies of other countries in order to ensure comfortable interaction of our

business-friendly operators who is interested in foreign economic activity? this is such a wide layer of areas in which we interact and expecting that we will continue our dialogue literally in a month at one of the largest exhibitions in russia , i mean our inotron industrial exhibition in yekaterinburg

thank you dear dear day. pay attention dear colleagues denis valentinovich managed to touch upon almost all key areas of cooperation between our countries in the economic sphere, and at the same time spoke quite compactly. now i would like to greet a person who, like his excellency the deputy prime minister, is a landmark figure in economic cooperation between our countries and the united arab emirates

is the chairman of the emirati part of the russian intergovernmental. and i would like to surpass yours, in fact, to repeat in a natural way what i asked about what i asked denis valentinovich from your point of view, how do you see the key common tasks that stand between us today, and in the current conditions for the development and increase in trade turnover of economic interaction, new projects. including denis valentinovich at the end, in a symbolic way , he mentioned the international transport corridor north, south, and possibly umiratsky participation. indeed, this is a breakthrough project that will allow. e-e order 10 million containers per year originating from the countries of the indian ocean from india from pakistan

to get to europe qualitatively faster and cheaper than today through the suez canal and the black sea straits, and we know that the emirates are studying this issue in detail at the request of russian president vladimir vladimirovich putin. is with us. and uh. i would also like to ask your excel you question. and by uh, direct calculations. this is very important for us and, uh, what denis vadinovich said, practically the roadmap, as far as i understand, is consistent and i would also like to know here your assessment on those infrastructure projects that are significant for the economies of our countries. which are key from your point of view your law enforcement is once again happy to

greet you. and uh. come on dear colleagues. i salute him to excel that abdalo bandages of squid, the ministers of economy and your orthodoxy, the floor to you first of all. let me express my deep gratitude to our russian organizers. and also to president putin, also to my esteemed colleague denis valentinovich mandroza, an invitation for being hosted today at the st. petersburg economic forum and our relations, of course, have increased in scale over the past 10 years. we held joint committee meetings. they happen every year and sometimes they happen twice a year and our relationship is our economy. our trade is growing

steadily and has grown steadily in recent years. that's not news. and what we see now. if we are talking about trade about our economy of course, we are seeing growth, stable growth, which actually takes our relationship to a new level. of course there is trade and active investment that we have seen in recent years given. this is our delegation that came here to st. petersburg for the economic forum. and this is the delegation today. uh has a very good uh good seat in the pavilion and of course we thank you for having us as guests we represent 18 companies in our pavilion and i invite you all to visit the pavilion. and also invite to communicate with our

companies and better understand the existing opportunities the delegation includes 45 members. uh, representatives of various sectors of the hospitality industry logistics business community enterprises and for them it is also an important opportunity to communicate with their colleagues. here in the st. petersburg pavilion to somehow represent the united arab emirates in russia , since our trade relations have shown steady growth until recent years. we are sure. uh, that our delegation should also include some cultural aspects. we have a representative of the ministry of culture, the minister of culture, so that bridges can be built between ordinary people

to exchange cultural ties, and the bridge from the culture of culture will e grow and e, involve more and more e people, both from the united arab emirates and from russia today we performed folk music. e it was about shintsionalnoy culture. er, which is original, which, er, has really very old roots. we all absorbed this culture, we love it and we let's save her. do we also proceed from a? an effective approach, also trying to develop green energy technology, artificial intelligence and other important points.

we evaluate how we can guide our country along the path of mutually beneficial cooperation, as we said above, in russia we see strategic partners, and we are building these partnerships, and our trade has been actively growing since we entered the this way. uh, collaboration since 21. we have reached 600 million. e dollars. uh, in our company work e in the energy sector in the real estate sector and others. and we will reach a new horizon of 1.1 billion dollars, uh in the field, logistics and agribusiness industry. we are actively developing

cooperation, making important contributions to the development of tourism destinations , and providing educational projects for the transport health care, food security , technology development and other important areas of the united arab emirates. there have always been open e, an investment project that is actively a lot of investments are being developed that come from russia, we also have a huge influx of tourists from russia tourists from russia have actively visited our country before. now. they choose to stay sometimes more and more. our ties between ordinary people of both countries are growing, they are getting closer to each other. we signed today an investment agreement saying both in the arctic and uh other

important areas of the arab emirates companies operating in the field of logistics. uh, support these initiatives. and we create a favorable business climate. e in arabic emirates, it is open for cooperation with all companies in the world. uh, many companies were looking to use the emirati hub to expand their cooperation a few years ago. we have built a whole infrastructure of ports, abu dhabi, uh, and others have built large airport complexes in dubai, after that another will be opened in abu dhabi in other locations, and also uh. we are opening a golden visa regime to attract the talents of creative people so that we can

attract, uh, and interact with talented and creative people so that to provide a hub for e people who could come and take advantage of the favorable business climate in the united arab emirates moi. uh, the challenge is to facilitate collaboration and reduce bureaucracy. e, increase the chances of successful cooperation, increase labor productivity and achieve other important e industrial indicators. e. this is also all very important in terms of e strengthening competitors' ability and e, creating an open business climate, the president of the arab emirates

that we have always played an important role as a transport logistics trading hub? e, from which is open to the whole world, uh shekhtarian, uh bo marakanayan, ah, also works in close cooperation on in uh 1995 with various nationalities who work and live in our country, which create all together a big arab family, we have a big house, uh, we have, uh, and synagogues. and uh churches of other denominations we are open to all we offer and invite. people cooperate with us, we absorb ourselves and i am mine with open to all cultures,

even though we uh appreciate our roots , i won't take up much time. you asked me to be brief. i will try to fulfill your request. and finally i want to say one very important thing. uh opportunities for further development of cooperation. i think it's very important to mention here that there is so much untapped potential in our collaboration and i'm looking forward to exploring those uh, untapped opportunities. come visit us at the pavilion. ask questions for the necessary information. and join our cooperation wednesday thank you very much for the story. a detailed answer and i would like to thank you in a special way for your many years of constructive relationship. and not

only professional but friendly, you can rightly say brotherly relations with your colleague denis valentinovich mandry. today, personal relationships are in many ways the engine of progress in any professional interaction. and we see this in the example of successful interaction within the framework of the intergovernmental commission between russia and the united arab emirates once again thank you very much for this. uh, what did you say about the significant infrastructure projects being implemented, including by dipi world and other large companies of the emirates in the russian direction, joint work on logistics. in particular, mtk north. the south is extremely important to us and we are ready to build up real-time cooperation on

these most important vectors of our current cooperation. well, as for separately. e churches. seeing off the president of russia for the last time, his highness sheikh mohammed benzoev expressed the idea of ​​building orthodox cathedrals. this idea is at an advanced stage of implementation, but there is potential for increased efforts on both sides. exactly like in many other moisturizing projects, his excellency is indeed. uh, minister abdal, almarese, told us that the emirates are open to everyone who wants to interact and the wisest policy of the president of the country, sheikh mohammed benzoyad, from our point of view in russia, is that

today for all the countries of the emirates without exception are open to constructive interaction, the foundation of which is cooperation in business matters of the most important projects in the economic sphere, and this is the high wisdom of sheikh mohammed , who really shows the whole world that he is the heir of a person who made a special sheikh in the history of the twentieth century for this, the founder of the united arab emirates and for us, it is extremely important that all the most important projects, without exception, receive accelerated development. thanks again.