Sri Lanka-Ukraine Business Forum at Chamber of Commerce
30th June, 2010
An important event of the visit of President Rajapaksa to Ukraine was the Sri Lanka Ukraine Business Forum on 30th of June. This event which was successfully held at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine with the participation of President Mahinda Rajapaksa and President Yanukovich as chief guests was organized by the Embassy of Sri Lanka in the Russian Federation. Sri Lanka was represented at this event by Board of Investment of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Tea Board, and Export Development Board of Sri Lanka while leading businessmen of Sri Lanka and representatives of leading Ukraine businesses participated. Sri Lanka Tea enjoys a big market in Ukraine.
President Rajapaksa, in addressing the audience at the Business Forum extended a special invitation to the Ukrainian Businessmen and industrialists to invest in Sri Lanka and spoke at length on the various facilities already available and that would be available for such investments. While speaking of the vision for the development of Sri Lanka’s future as well as strengthening Sri Lanka economically as a result of the realization of the expectation for developing a national economy capable of ensuring social justice and human development, President Rajapaksa explained that Sri Lanka’s ability to achieve the current 7% economic growth was also due to these economic policies of the government of Sri Lanka.
While mentioning that Sri Lanka was strategically positioned in a very important location on the world map, as in the case of Ukraine between Europe and the Russian Federation, President Rajapaksa said that there would be more opportunities for joint projects where both parties could work together in the development of economic and commercial relations between our countries.
President Rajapaksa invited the Ukraine business community to visit Sri Lanka in the near future as Sri Lanka is regarded at present to be among the best countries for investment in the world.
