The Azerbaijan State News Agency

Fifth CEO Lunch held in Baku

Baku, July 5, AZERTAC

Caspian European Club and Caspian American Club have held the fifth CEO Lunch in Baku.

“CEO Lunch is one of the key tools of networking, and is being held to create opportunities for CEOs to communicate in informal surroundings and establish new contacts”, First Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Caspian European Club and Caspian American Club Telman Aliyev said. He noted that Caspian European Club and Caspian American Club host CEO Lunch with participation of top-managers of CEIBC member companies on the third Wednesday of each month in Baku.

Telman Aliyev announced that the next CEO Lunch event would be held in Baku on September 20, 2017 within the framework of the Caspian Energy Transport Forum and Caspian Energy ICT Forum. He also reminded that the first CEO Lunch event in Tbilisi would be held on September 29 of this year and would be hosted every last Friday of the month.

Chairman of the Milli Majlis Committee of Azerbaijan for Economic Policy, Industry and Entrepreneurship, Academician Ziyad Samadzade and Head of the Chief Department for Finance-Tariff and Monetary Control of the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan Mirgasim Vakhabov were the honorary guests of CEO Lunch.

Academician Ziyad Samadzade noted that a lot of work is currently underway in the legislative sphere, as well as programs on entrepreneurship development in Azerbaijan are being implemented. Mirgasim Vakhabov emphasized that the State Customs Committee is closely cooperating with the Caspian European Club and Caspian American Club, taking an active part in events arranged by the Club, carefully considers requests and proposals of the member companies of the Club. “We are very satisfied with the fruitful cooperation which has been established with CEIBC, and hope for its further continuation”, Mirgasim Vakhabov concluded.

The guests have supported the Club’s event held in the new format, saying that it will help to establish a much closer cooperation between the state and the private sector, provided the event participants information about the possibilities of expansion of cooperation with government agencies they represent, spoke about their activity, as well as about the future plans.

Veka Construction and MONT MMC companies made presentations for the meeting participants.

Problems facing entrepreneurs were discussed in an informal environment. Issues concerning their business doing in different regions of the country, as well as proposals on expansion of cooperation in different sectors of the economy were addressed.

Companies, which entered and continued its membership in the Caspian European Club and Caspian American Club, received certificates.

Telman Aliyev reminded that the Caspian European Club was established in June 2002 under support of the largest oil-gas companies operating in the Caspian-Black Sea region. His Excellency Ilham Aliyev, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, is the Chairman of the Caspian European Club.

According to him, since the moment of establishment Caspian European Club has been promoting attraction of oil industry revenues towards the development of the non-oil sector. Caspian European Club , which brings together over 5,000 companies and organizations, operates in 50 countries of the world, carries out an active work to maintain the dialogue between the government agencies and the private sector.

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