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Ambassador Alabo Represents Ghana At Russia - African Forum

By Kester Kenn Klomegah, Moscow
Diaspora News Ambassador Alabo, Front Row, On Extreme Right
JUL 13, 2016 LISTEN
Ambassador Alabo, Front Row, On Extreme Right

Official government representatives and private individuals from about fifteen African countries attended the IV Russia-African Forum (RAF) held on 11-14 July as part of the INNOPROM-2016 international industrial trade fair in Yekaterinburg (Urals).

The African delegates represented different countries included Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Burundi, South Africa, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Cameroon, Mozambique, Chad, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Algeria and Egypt.

The Republic of Ghana was represented by the Ghana's Ambassador to the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Dr. Kodzo Kpoku Alabo.

The forum key speakers and participants, noting the existing huge untapped potentials in their relations, outlined diversified ways and reviewed prospects for strengthening and developing further both economic and business cooperation between Russia and Africa.

This forum, supported by the Ministry of Trade and Industry of the Russian Federation, provided an opportunity for Russian companies to meet and discuss possible cooperation with representatives of African manufacturing organizations and state bodies as well as representatives of the banking and investment sectors.

It was also a significant platform for African business community to explore Russian industrial potential as well as to further strengthen the economic and trade relations with Russian companies and government authorities.

As already well-known, Russian companies are interested in projects focusing on mineral extraction, the energy sector, construction of large manufacturing facilities, human resources training, healthcare development, agriculture and food security, cooperation in digital technology and communications

During the forum there was a presentation of the B2B export online platform for export sales, as well as visits by African delegates to a variety of major industrial organizations located in the Urals Federal District.

The region has a highly developed, diversified and structurally complex heavy industry including ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, heavy machine building, the chemical industry, the extraction of mineral raw materials, lumbering and woodworking.

The Urals region encompasses the central Urals, northern and southern Urals, and adjacent areas of the eastern European and western Siberian plains.

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