“Donetsk is the future business capital of Ukraine”, – Anatoliy Blyznyuk

At the final press-conference, organizers and partners of the Annual International Investment Summit of the Donetsk Region summed up the results of the event, which took place from 29-31 October in the city of Donetsk. According to event organizers, the Summit reached its goal – to demonstrate the investment potential of one of the most dynamic and developing regions of Ukraine and Central-Eastern Europe to event guests amongst which were 430 foreign delegates from 21 countries: Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Indonesia, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, and the U.S.

Conference organizers feel that the Summit portrayed the Region’s unique investment potential, but also put a new task before regional businesses – business planning and shifting projects to the international level, as well as improving business communications and promotion. The Head of the Donetsk Regional Council Anatoliy Blyznyuk evaluated the prospective formation of Donbas’ attractive investment image: “I now understand that there is a need to improve the ideology of business relations to the level that investors and representatives of foreign delegations bring to us. This is the first step in renewing Donbas, not only at the industrial, but also at the business level. Then Donetsk, by right, will be called the business capital of Ukraine.”