Mr. Suresh Prabhu, Minister for Railways and India’s G20 Sherpa will be inaugurating CII Partnership Summit scheduled to be held from January 15 – 17, 2015 in Jaipur Rajasthan.
Started in 1995, the Partnership Summit – CII’s flagship international event is currently in its 21st edition.
The summit, organised in association with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India as well as the Government of Rajasthan, commemorates the Confederation’s 120th year.
The theme for the Summit is “Partnerships for Shared New Realities”. In this era of ‘Shared New Realities’, the world would like to see an active engagement and collaboration with India and stimulate discussions among key stakeholders - political, institutional, business, media and academia - on the way forward by looking at the best strategies for both developed and developing economies to encourage and build new bridges which foster balanced and equitable growth. The Partnership Summit offers the platform for such an engagement to take place.
Some of the topics under discussion at the Summit include: “Two decades of WTO: Why it matters for development”; “Resurgent Rajasthan”; “US and India: Creating a shared future”; “Mega regional trading blocs: Implications for emerging economies”; “Make in India” and “Revitalising South Asia economic cooperation”; “Financing for growth and development”, “Growing importance of service sector and FDI in manufacturing value chains”, Global development agenda beyond 2015” among others.
Over 1000 delegates with over 40 per cent participation from overseas are expected to participate at the Summit. Delegates from 51 countries will be converging in Jaipur for the Summit. The Summit will play host to Trade and Economic Ministers of 24 countries.
Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Commerce & Industry and Smt. Vasundhara Raje, Chief Minister of Rajasthan will be addressing the Inaugural Session of the Partnership Summit. Senior officials from both the Central and State Government will also be participating at the session.
Some of the dignitaries at the Summit will include Mr. Nikola Gruevski, Prime Minister of Macedonia, Dr Abraao Pio Gourgel, Minister of Economy, Angola, Dr Rosa Escorcio Pacavira de Matos, Minister of Commerce, Angola, Ms. Bernarda G Martins, Minister of Industry, Angola, Mr Andrew Robb AO, MP, Minister for Trade and Investment, Australia, MrTofail Ahmed, Minister of Commerce, Bangladesh, Mr Pan Sorasak, Secretary of State, Ministry of Commerce, Cambodia, Ms. Gao Yan, Vice-Minister of Ministry of Commerce, China, MrAiyaz Sayed - Khaiyum, Minister of Finance, Public Service, Strategic Planning, National Development and Statistics, Public Enterprise and Tourism, Fiji, Mr. WaleedHabeeb Al Hilo Al Moosawi, Deputy Minister of Trade, Iraq, Mr Abdulmohsen Medij Al - Medij, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Kuwait, Mr Christian Cardona, Minister, Ministry of the Economy, Investment and Small Business, Malta, Mr Jerry Naumoff, FDI Minister, Macedonia, Y B Dato Mustapa Mohamed, Minister of International Trade & Industry, Malaysia, Mr Mohamed Mamoune Bouhdoud, Minister of Industry, Trade, Investment and Digital Economies in charge of Small Enterprises and Informal Sector Integration, Morocco, Mr Sunil BahadurThapa, Minister of Commerce and Supplies, Nepal, Mr Alma Oumarou, Minister of Commerce and Promotion of Private Sector, Niger, Sultan Bin Rashid Al-Khater, Undersecretary, Ministry of Economy and Commerce, Qatar, Baroness SandipVerma, Minister for Energy and Climate Change, UK and Mr Cao Quoc Hung,ViceMinister, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Vietnam among others.
Senior representatives and heads of six multilateral organisations will also be participating at the Summit. They include Mr Wencai Zhang, Vice President, Asian Development Bank, Mr Phil O’ Reilly, Chairman, Business Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD, Mr William Danvers, Deputy Secretary General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Mr Li Yong, Director General, UNIDO, Mr Francis Gurry, Director General, World Intellectual Property Organisation and Mr Roberto Azevedo, Director General, World Trade Organisation.
New Delhi
January 14, 2015