OREANDA-NEWS. Vnesheconombank’s delegation headed by Chairman Vladimir Dmitriev participated in a series of bilateral meetings and multilateral events held as part of an autumn session of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

In the course of their working meeting Vladimir Dmitriev and President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) Werner Hoyer discussed issues of EIB’s participation in Vnesheconombank’s current projects on supporting small and medium-sized enterprises in Russia, forthcoming joint events in 2014 devoted to funding infrastructure projects on Russia’s territory, pointed out a successful implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding signed as part of the initiative “Russia-the EU: Partnership for Modernization” and discussed the possibility of holding an annual meeting of G20 countries development banks by the European Investment Bank (similarly to the meeting of G20 countries development institutions’ heads organized by VEB in July of 2013).

As part of events in the city of Washington, Vnesheconombank Deputy Chairman – Member of the Board Alexandr Ivanov held talks with Vice President of the International Finance Corporation Dimitris Tsitsiragos. They discussed issues of the current cooperation including an agreement on projects in energy efficiency. There were also bilateral meetings with representatives of the World Bank and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) which is a member of the World Bank Group.

Vnesheconombank’s representatives participated in the second annual meeting of the International Development Finance Club where the Club’s performance results for the year 2013 and its action strategy for the year 2014 were approved. UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon was a Guest of Honor at the meeting, in his address he spoke about green financing which is one of the Club’s top-priority lines of activity.