Vnesheconombank and Kazakhstan Development Bank Sign Agreement on Cooperation
Today, on August 15 in the course of the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Interbank Consortium timed to coincide with the SCO summit, the Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank) and Kazakhstan Development Bank entered into an Agreement on Cooperation in Bishkek.
The Agreement was signed by Vnesheconombank Chairman Vladimir Dmitriev and Kazkhstan Development Bank Board Director Askar Sembi.
The Agreement aims to encourage the comprehensive development of the two countries’ atomic industry and energy sector through participating in financing projects associated with advanced high-technology production facilities designed to produce radioisotopes, radio pharmaceutical medicines and other atomic industry products on the basis of Kazakh and Russian companies.
The Agreement provides for participating in funding projects aimed at creating alternative sources of energy including low output nuclear power stations, which could be built first of al place on the basis of the existing facilities in the city of Kurchatov of the eastern Kazakh region.
Under the Agreement the two sides are determined to promote the development of Russian and Kazakh transit-transport potential by way of financing relevant projects in border areas, namely in the Altai and eastern Kazakh regions.
The Agreement would further promote the integration of the two countries’ economies in high-technology production sector and would also encourage the comprehensive development of Kazakh and Russian border regions.
Origin: Press Office of Vnesheconombank
Contact person: Svetlana Nikitina
Phone: +7 (495) 208-46-93, Fax: +7 (495) 975-21-34
E-mail: press@veb.ru
Vnesheconombank Participates in Russia’s Navy Day Celebrations in Sevastopol
The delegation of the Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank) participated in Russia’s Navy Day celebrations in the hero city of Sevastopol. To mark the occasion, VEB’s management handed over three ambulances equipped with advanced intensive care unit equipment to the Russian Black Sea Navy. The mobile intensive care units are to be used in Black Sea Navy military hospitals in Sevastopol, Novorossiisk and Feodosiya.
Within the formal Navy Day celebration programme on July 28, Vnesheconombank’s football team played the Black Sea Navy’s team in a friendly match. Vnesheconombank’s team won the match with the score 2:1. The famous Spartak veteran Yuri Gavrilov assisted in scoring a winning goal. This kind of matches became traditional. The Bank’s and the Russian Black Sea Navy’s football teams played their first football match in Sevastopol last year.
In order to uphold the Black Sea Navy’s sporting traditions Vnesheconombank’s management rendered financial assistance to the Black Sea Navy sports club to purchase sporting equipment and sporting outfit and fully equipped and outfitted football, tennis and yacht teams.
On July 28, the Bank’s delegation also participated in the Warship Navy Day Event and water sports events to celebrate Russia’s Navy Day.
Origin: Press Office of Vnesheconombank
Contact person: Svetlana Nikitina
Phone: +7 (495) 208-46-93, Fax: +7 (495) 975-21-34
E-mail: press@veb.ru