OREANDA-NEWS  On 24 November was announced, that this year EU-Russia Industrialists' Round Table (IRT) 10th Annual Conference took place on 12-13 November 2008, on the eve of the EU-Russia Summit. The Industrialists’ Round Table is co-chaired by RUSNANO Director General Anatoly Chubais.

The Conference was dedicated to questions about the perspectives of cooperation between Russian and European businessmen against the coming world financial crisis and complex official relations between the EU and Russia.

The leading businessmen developed a unified position on future economic cooperation between Russia and the European Union as a conclusion of the Conference.

For the first time since the start of the IRT, the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev addressed the 300 people attending the event and received the IRT recommendations.

Making reference to the IRT recommendations, the President indicated his support for the business point of view on the potential of closer EU-Russia economic cooperation. The President advised the meeting that he would instruct the Russian Government to take into serious consideration the IRT’s recommendations.

In the framework of the special session dedicated to the presentations of the projects of business cooperation between EU and Russia, the head of the project office of RUSNANO, Mikhail Chuchkevich made a presentation on EU-Russia cooperation in the field of nanotechnologies.