Dr. Erguder CAN,
Secretary General,
Republic of Turkiye
Izmir Development Agency

«Dear Mr. Savoshchev,
I would like to thank you once more for great hospitality and kind interest that has been presented to our delegation during our visit to Russian Federation between March 17th and 21st, 2009.

I strongly believe that the fruitful work will be realizing together, would contribute much to the development of trade relations between our countries.

Thanking you again for your hospitality and kindness, I repeat that it would be an honor for us to host you in Izmir».

March 2009 

Gerrit Schmitter, Director
Natalie Schnar, Project Manager

«Dear Mr. Katenev,
On behalf of all the participants of the visit and especially the German Ministry of Economics and Technologies we should like to thank you with all our hearts for your warm welcome and excellent organization of the German business circles delegation visit to St. Petersburg.
At the German-Russian Railway Industry Forum, which took place on March 5, 2009, at the premises of the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the participants were offered an excellent opportunity to see the general economic potential of the Russian railway industry.
An animated dialogue with you and representatives of branch companies who were present has been of special help to the start of business relations, as it gave us a unique opportunity to obtain all the information we needed at first hand and thus to get an impression about the level of economic development in Russia and its interest in bilateral cooperation. We are sure that the contacts that were made there will give rise to long business relationships. All the participants of the visit appreciated the reception they had and the interest of enterprises that attended the business meetings.
The individual meetings with industry representatives and visits to the leading enterprises have let us intensify our knowledge about cooperation opportunities in certain areas of the railway industry and economy of St. Petersburg. The program of meetings, negotiations, visits of enterprises, and seeing the cultural wealth of the city was much more than our participants expected».

March 2009

Raymond Bachand,
Minister of Economic Development, Innovation,
and Export Trade of the Quebec Province, Canada

«Dear Mr. President,
As my mission in Russia is over, I should like to thank you for meeting our delegation on September 15 c.y. at the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In a unanimous opinion of the participants, this mission has been very successful, in particular, due to the hospitality and professionalism of Russian partners whom we have met.
I am glad to admit that this mission is one more step on the way of substantiation of relations between Quebec and Russia. By the way these relations are continued in 2009 within the framework of a expectative mission of the Quebec Prime Minister, Jean Charais, to your country.
During our meeting, we discussed opportunities for cooperation between the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Quebec, notably in many sectors of the industry. The similarities of the St. Petersburg region and Quebec create a foundation for fruitful cooperation of our economies, and our staff will continue exchanges in this field.
Thank you once more, Mr. President, and please accept my sincere feelings of respect».

February 2009

N.N. Sakhar,
First Deputy
Chairman, BelCCI

«Dear Vladimir Ivanovich,
The Belarus Chamber of Commerce and Industry gives you its respect and thanks you and your staff for organizing the St. Petersburg – Belarus Days of Business Cooperation on December 18-19, 2008.
I am sure that closer cooperation between our Chambers, exchanges of business visits, participation in exhibitions and fairs in your region and the Republic of Belarus, and a more intensive information exchange will help intensify and expand the mutually advantageous cooperation between business circles of St. Petersburg and Republic of Belarus.
We wish you and your staff more success and prosperity and look forward to fruitful cooperation in the future».

December 2008

Hoang Van Dung,
Vice president,
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Vietnam

“Dear Mr. Vladimir I. Prokopyev,

First of all, on behalf of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and industry (VCCI), we would like to send you the best regards.

After preparation in many days and thank to zeal help from your side on July 10, 2008 the seminar bet Vietnam and Russian enterprises is also organized successfully. On behalf of VCCI, we express our deep tanks for your warm receipt as well as managers in St. Petersburg CCI, especially managers in International Relations Center to support to organize the past seminar.

Some recent days many newspapers in Vietnam have published news of the above seminar, Vietnamese enterprises feel hopeful to have many opportunities to cooperate with Russian enterprises to enhance import and export goods between two markets. We also believe that VCCI and St. Petersburg CCI will be the most effective bridge for whole enterprises in the two countries in the near future.

Again, thank for your cooperation very much”.

July 9, 2008
 

Katsuhiko Nawano,
Leader of Keizai Doyukai Mission to Russia,
Vice Chairman on Russia NNIS-Japan Relations
(Exclusive Vice President, Japan Airlines Corporation):

«Dear Mr. Katenev,

All the delegates of join me in expressing our heartfelt thanks for taking time out of your very busy schedule to Keizai Doyukai Mission to Russia meet with us in St. Petersburg on January 29, 2009.
Your briefing gave us a penetrating insight into the actual situation and future challenges of Russia under financial crisis. Particularly informative and impressive was the exchange of views on the prospects for the Russian political and economic environment for business operating in St. Petersburg, including Japanese ones.
We can assure you tat our mission of this year contributes greatly to our better understanding of the actual situation and future challenges for the working relationship between Russia and Japan. On this occasion, we wish to express our hope that we will make every effort to develop and strengthen our mutual ties.
We wish to thank you again and hope that we will have another opportunity of this kind in the near future. Until then, may you remain in good health».

February 3, 2009 

Doctor Karl-Joachim Dreier,
President of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, professor,
Doctor Heins-Jorg-Schmidt-Trenz, General Manager of the
Hamburg Chamber of Commerce:

«Dear Mister President,

Hereby we would like to thank you for your support within the framework of arranging and holding a visit of our delegation to St. Petersburg in October 2007.

The "Hamburg Economy Days in St. Petersburg" conference was a great success. The impressions of our participants were very positive, which facilitated numerous individual meetings directly on the spot. We are convinced that the conference and the subsequent visits to enterprises have become an excellent base for further development of economic relations between Hamburg and Russia, and we are glad of the prospects for a more intensive exchange between enterprises of Hamburg and St. Petersburg arising therefrom».

November 19, 2007

Shoichi Atarashi,
Vice President of the Kobe Chamber of Commerce and Industry:

«I appreciate very much your kind support and the hospitality extended to us during our short stay in St.Petersburg. Thanks to your chamber’s well-organized business arrangements for us, our stay was very successful and fruitful.

Thank you so much again for your hospitality. We hope that the mutual business ties between

16 October 2007

Andris Gutmanis,
General Director of the Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry:

«On behalf of the Latvian Chamber of Commerce and Industry I would like to thank you and your colleagues who worked on the organization of the Latvian trade mission in St. Petersburg. The trade mission participants are pleased with individual meetings and business contacts which they made during their stay in St. Petersburg.

Thanks to the competence, quick reaction to ongoing changes it was a pleasure to work on the organization of a trade mission in St. Petersburg.

The trade mission in St. Petersburg contributed to the development of economic relations between our countries, on the whole, and development of relations between our chambers of commerce and industry, in particular».

September 20, 2007

Anna Azari,
Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Russian Federation:

«Dear Mister Katenev,

Thank you for an instructive and useful meeting. It was interesting for me to familiarize myself with the activities of the St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry and discuss prospects of joint work. I am convinced that meetings of this kind are a firm basis for long-lasting, fruitful and mutually beneficial cooperation».

March 9, 2007

Dr.S.R.Ranjbaran,
President of Isfahan Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines:

«I would like to appreciate you and the Staff of St. Petersburg chamber of commerce and Industry for your hospitality and organizing business meeting in your chamber. We are confident that such interactions will lead to mutual benefits».

16 October 2006

Wang Li,
Deputy director, Economic Information Department
of China Council for the promotion of the International trade (CCPIT):

«Here we would like to extend our sincere gratitude for your hospitality and efforts in making our visit a great success. Our meeting is both informative and constructive. It is our sincere wish that the cooperation between our two sides will be further strengthened and yield more fruits in the near future».

19 July 2006