“I’d like to see the agency become an effective instrument for broadening your opportunities, for those who want to promote their ideas, who are willing and eager to carry out and accomplish what they consider important for themselves, their business and the country in general.” Vladimir Putin At a video conference with participants of the Strategic Initiatives Agency project in Yekaterinburg
Transcript:
Vladimir Putin: Hello, and good afternoon! I’m glad to welcome you.
I’m very pleased that our joint project – let me put it like this because the project to create the Strategic Initiatives Agency is indeed ours as well as yours – has had such an active start...
“I’d like to see the agency become an effective instrument for broadening your opportunities, for those who want to promote their ideas, who are willing and eager to carry out and accomplish what they consider important for themselves, their business and the country in general.”
Vladimir Putin At a video conference with participants of the Strategic Initiatives Agency project in Yekaterinburg
Transcript:
Vladimir Putin: Hello, and good afternoon! I’m glad to welcome you.
I’m very pleased that our joint project – let me put it like this because the project to create the Strategic Initiatives Agency is indeed ours as well as yours – has had such an active start. We have received about 1,000 applications with proposals for three main directions of the future work of the agency: support for medium-sized business, support for social initiatives and promotion of professional qualifications. Let me repeat that more than 1,000 applications were submitted.
You have passed the first round of selection. First of all, I’d like to thank you for your active participation at the start of the agency’s work. I’d like to see the agency become not a short-lived or opportunistic structure, but rather an effective instrument for broadening your opportunities, for those who want to promote their ideas, who are willing and eager to carry out and accomplish what they consider important for themselves, their business and the country in general. I’d very much like to see our project succeed. We will do everything we can to make this happen.
We’ve agreed to hold the first round. This has been completed, and 200 applications have been selected out of 1,000. Two weeks ago we agreed to gather all of you within the framework of Innoprom in Yekaterinburg so that you could get acquainted with each other and announce your proposals once again. On July 27, we will invite a small group of 25 representatives out of these 200 to Moscow and name the agency’s general director, three project directors and members of an expert council. But I’d like to emphasise the main point, which is that all of you will be involved in the agency’s work, either here in Moscow or in the regions.
As I understand it, we will now be organising round table discussions. Let’s not put this off. I’d like to give the floor to Sverdlovsk Region Governor Alexander Misharin, who will also make some introductory remarks. Then we will invite the round table mediators to speak. Mr Misharin, please go ahead.
Alexander Misharin: Good afternoon, Mr Putin. According to your instructions, we’ve organised a large strategic session today on planning the future activities of the agency as part of the Innoprom exhibition and forum. About 200 applicants are gathered here. A plenary meeting devoted to rating the problems of medium-sized business took place an hour and a half ago. We have determined six basic problems, and the groups are now drafting a model for the agency’s activities that will facilitate the proper resolution of these problems.
I’d like to mention that the first major infrastructure project on developing an enormous cluster of medium-sized businesses has already been launched today in Yekaterinburg. As we said, the Innoprom exhibition and the Yekaterinburg-Expo exhibition centre have now become a venue for discussing the drafting and development of new initiatives. Today is the first day of the agency. During three meetings we must determine the agency’s structure, model, functions and the main directions of work. We are working on this. I’d now like to give the floor to the round table moderators.
Vladimir Putin: Thank you very much, Mr Misharin. I’d like to compliment your city authorities. The city is probably beset with problems, just as any other major city, but during my last trip to Yekaterinburg I saw that the city is being looked after well. I would very much like for this to continue.
Late last night I met with former Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Eduard Rossel. We spoke about the region and the city. He has come up with his own projects, which are completely new and high tech. He is an active man.
More to be posted soon...
источник новости: http://premier.gov.ru/eng/events/news/15884/
