President Nazarbayev meets Finnish business elite
17:44, 25 March 2009
ASTANA. March 25. KAZINFORM Within the framework of a state visit to Finland President Nursultan Nazarbayev has met with representatives of the Finnish business elite. At the breakfast organized specially for N.Nazarbayev heads of the large Finnish companies, including Rautaruukki Corporation CEO Sakari Tamminen, President and Director General of Nokian Tyres Plc Kim Gran. Director General of Outotec Oyj Tapani Jarvinen, Vice-President of Wartsila Corporation Tore Bjorkman and others attended it; Kazinform refers to the President?s press service.
The participants discussed the situation in the world economy, expressed their visions on overcoming the global economic crisis. The Head of the State noted that Finland can become a reliable trade and investment partner of Kazakhstan. He called the Finnish companies to enter Kazakhstan?s market with new projects.
N.Nazarbayev noted that Kazakhstan is ready to offer the Finnish entrepreneurs projects on development of processing complex, engineering, energy, transit-transport and communication infrastructures, construction, pharmaceutics. The agroindustrial complex is an important direction for cooperation. Kazakhstan ranks leading positions on production of grain and flour. There are big opportunities in stock breeding and manufacture of beef and dairy productions.
?Kazakhstan considers Finland as a perspective trade-economic partner in the European Union. I hope, that a result of our mutual efforts will be extension of participation of the Finnish business in Kazakhstan, implementation of joint projects, development of trade-economic and investment interaction between entrepreneurs of both countries?, N.Nazarbayev said.
The same day the Head of the State surveyed Otaniemi technology hub.
Otaniemi is the leading Scandinavian scientific center, which includes research organizations, academic and educational institutes and enterprises in the sphere of high technologies.
Nursultan Nazarbayev visited Innopoli Technical Park, which enters the structure of the technology hub.
Within the framework of the visit Engineering and Technology Transfer Center JSC, Finnish Science Park Association TEKEL and INNO PRAXIS company signed a Memorandum on Attraction of the Finnish Specialists to Creation, Strengthening and development of Innovation Infrastructure in the Republic of Kazakhstan.