Diplomatic Economic Club^{® Since 1997}

On April 3, 2009 at the international exhibition center in Kipsala in the framework of the 14th international textile, cloths, leather products and production equipment exhibition „Intertextil Balticum 2009“, exhibition company BT-1 and Diplomatic Economic Club organized a meeting with the textile industry businessmen and diplomats.
Businessmen, management of textile industry associations in Latvia and Lithuania, representatives of economic departments of various Embassies participated in the meeting.
His excellence Mr. Leopold Merckx, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Belgium, was one of the guests of the meeting.

Participants of the Intertextil Balticum 2009 businessmen and diplomats meeting – representatives of the Embassies

Albano Giancarlo — Italian Trade Comission (I.C.E)Trade Promotion Section of the Italian, Director for the Baltic States
Bartosz Krzysztof — Counsellor, Embassy of Poland
Bredikhin Pavel – Second secretary, Embassy of Russia
Dreimanis Juris — assistant, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Erdem Barbaros Tuna — Counsellor, Embassy of Turkey
Janockova Ludmila – First secretary, Embassy of the Czech Republic
Khamrokhodjaev Temur – Consul, Embassy of Uzbekistan
Mezl Milan — Czech Trade Riga
Nazaruk Igor — Counsellor, Embassy of Belarus
Sushkevitch Aleksandr – Second secretary, Embassy of Belarus
Tikhonov Evgeny — Counsellor, Embassy of Russia
Tkachuk Pavel – First secretary, Embassy of Belarus
Turturiello Giovanni — commercial attache, Embassy of Italy
Villers Andre — Counsellor, Royal Embassy of Belgium
Zhukova Tatjana – Representation of the Moscow government in Latvia
At the meeting the following speeches were delivered:
Guntis Strazds – President of the light and textile industries Association in Latvia.
Lasiauskas Linas — President of the light and textile industries Association in Lithuania.
Barbaros Tuna Erdem — Counsellor, Embassy of Turkey
Igor Nazaruk – Counsellor, Embassy of Belarus
Evgeny Tihonov — Counsellor, Embassy of Russia
Villers André -Counsellor, Royal Embassy of Belgium
Albano Giancarlo – Director of the Italian Institute of Foreign Trade (ICE) in Baltics.
After the speeches there were individual meetings between businessmen and diplomats, which were planned in advanced.