Prime Minister of Georgia to Attend World Economic Forum in Davos
Prime Minister of Georgia, Giorgi Kvirikashvili, will be attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 22 - 24. As Georgian media sources report, the PM will meet with political leaders and representatives of various international companies also attending the 48th World Economic Forum to be held from January 23 to January 26, this year.
Kvirikashvili is to participate in the Strategic Outlook –Eurasia discussion to be held on January 23. Alongside the Prime Minister of Georgia, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Mikheil Janelidze, Minister of Finance Mamuka Bakhtadze, and Giorgi Bachiashvili, Chief Executive Director of the Georgian Co-Investment Fund, are to be members of the Georgian delegation heading to Davos.
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum 2018 is expected to gather over 2,500 leaders from governments, businesses, international organizations, civil society, academic circles and arts. The forum, with the theme: “Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World,” offers over 400 sessions within its program, covering global, geopolitical, economic, regional, industry and business and ‘the future’. Issues to be discussed range from improving global governance mechanisms, advancing major multilateral processes, sustainable and inclusive economic development, to the fast changing geopolitical landscape, and innovations, ideas and discoveries of the future.
By Nino Gugunishvili