OREANDA-NEWS. January 22, 2013. Transcript of the meeting:  Arkady Dvorkovich: Good day, colleagues! I will outline the key objectives for the Russian delegation at this year’s Davos Forum. The delegation, headed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, will attend the forum meetings on January 23 and 24, that's two full days. The delegation comprises representatives of federal and regional governments, including yours truly, as well as some members of the Government Staff, including Sergei Prikhodko (First Deputy Chief of the Government Staff), Minister for Relations with the Open Government Mikhail Abyzov, some regional heads, in particular Rustam Minnikhanov (Head of Tatarstan), Lev Kuznetsov (Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory) and Yevgeny Kuivashev (Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region). The forum will also be attended by a number of deputy federal ministers, including Sergei Belyakov (Deputy Minister of Economic Development) and Sergei Storchak (Deputy Minister of Finance). Representatives of business associations and large state development institutes Vladimir Dmitriev (Chairman of Vnesheconombank), Alexander Shokhin (President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs), Vasily Titov (Deputy CEO of VTB Bank), and leaders of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, as well as leaders of large state and private companies, will also attend the meetings.

This year, the Russian delegation is bigger than ever. There are several reasons for that. First, Russia is president of the G20 this year and traditionally the Davos Forum welcomes the chairs of the G20 and G8 as its main guests. This time, the Prime Minister will speak at the first large plenary session in the Congress Hall. This meeting will focus on national development scenarios which have been prepared by a panel of Russian and foreign experts over the past few months. Our colleagues, Sergei Guriyev, Alexei Kudrin and Yale University professor Oleg Tsivinsky, will speak about them at the beginning of the plenary meeting. Following the presentation of the scenarios (they will be discussed for about two hours prior to the session), the Prime Minister will deliver a speech outlining his own view of the development scenarios and Russia’s role in the global economy. He will talk about the priorities of Russia's presidency of the G20 and outline the Russian Government's main objectives, including those that lie at the heart of Government activities and which he will shortly be announcing at a Government meeting. In this sense, both the Davos Forum and the Gaidar Forum, which  recently took place, provide platforms for comparing approaches with the experts and verifying understanding of Government activities, which under Russian law are defined by the Prime Minister.

On the second day of the forum, the Prime Minister will attend two main events. The first one is a special working breakfast, organised by the major Russian bank VTB Bank, where an informal discussion on Russia’s development will take place. The second event is a session on the G20. During this session, the Prime Minister will give a more detailed view of the priorities of Russia's G20 presidency, taking into account his own experience working in this format. Together with other heads of state, Mr Medvedev  was one of the de facto instigators of the G20 in its current format and was himself one of the G20 leaders. Therefore, he has all the information needed to give an overview of the prospects and priorities for the G20. Ksenia Yudaeva, the current Russian G20 Sherpa, will attend this session too and will give a detailed presentation of our position and priorities.