World Trade Center Moscow is scheduled to host the 43^rd
World Trade Centers Association (WTCA) General Assembly
in September 2012.

WTCA General Assembly is the annual event of the Association which gathers representatives from nearly all World Trade Centers around the Globe, State authorities,
Chambers of Commerce and Industry,
business community and associations of entrepreneurs.

WTCA was founded in 1970 and nowadays embraces 320 World Trade Centers in 96 countries, incorporating 750 000 companies and enterprises. Participants of the 43^rd General Assembly will have a unique opportunity to broaden their international contacts, discuss the global economic and Russian markets environment, to meet informally with their colleagues and establish business and partnership contacts among representatives of the world business elite.

WTC Moscow hosts the WTCA General Assembly
for the first time in the modern history of Russia.

WTC Moscow is a uniform architectural ensemble with a total area of 270 000 m² that comprises 3 office towers with a total area of 109 400 m², Congress Center with a surface space
of 6000 m², Crowne Plaza Moscow WTC hotel for 724 rooms (including Luxury styled 149 premium class club rooms)
and “Mezhdunarodnaya-2” apartment hotel with the floor area
of 48 900 m², automated multilevel parking lot for over 2000 vehicles.

More than 500 tenants, one third of which are foreign enterprises enjoy the services of the WTC Moscow. Among them are world-known brands, such as engineering group E4, Acron Group, Russian Helicopters, Gazprom-Media, Skolkovo, LG, Daewoo, Marubeni, Young&Rubicam, Toyo Engineering Corporation, ThyssenKrupp AG and others.

WTC Congress Center hosts large-scale international events with participation of the heads of States and governments, famous figures of science, culture and art. Russian President Vladimir Putin and the RF Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev have repeatedly given speeches from the WTC Moscow tribune.

WTC Congress Center is the permanent platform for hosting such major events as investment forums of VTB-Capital “Russia Calling!”, “Russian Fashion Week”, CISCO and Yandex conferences, Forums of the State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM, All-Russia Public Organization “Business Russia”, Chamber of Commerce and Trade of the Russian Federation and others.

Only for the past two years WTC Moscow hosted such major forums, as European Conference of Council of Europe Conference of Ministers Responsible for Spatial/Regional Planning (CEMAT), International Forum “The Role of People's Diplomacy in the Development of International Humanitarian Cooperation”, The 1st Russian Petroleum Congress, First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety “Time for action!”, forums “Open Russia: Partnership for modernization” and “Open Russia: From the Common economic space to the Eurasian Union”, WHO`s Global Ministerial Conference on Healthy Lifestyles and Noncommunicable Disease Control and others.

In January — February 2012 World Trade Center Moscow hosted the first international event under the Russian Chairmanship of the "Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation" (APEC) Forum.

The elite “Mercury Club” headed by Academician Evgeny Primakov, one of the most reputable world politicians, has been functioning in WTC since 2002. “Mercury Club” is a platform for constructive dialogue between representatives of business community and federal and regional authorities.

WTC Moscow puts a special emphasis on regional and international cooperation.

It has initiated the process of creating a regional network by opening the WTC-Krasnodar, the largest multifunctional business-complex in the Southern Federal District of the Russian Federation.

Trade missions are the regular trips organized under the aegis of WTC Moscow: thus are visits of Russian delegates to the USA, China, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, France and other countries.

WTC Moscow has established friendly relations with World Trade Centers of various countries including EU States, states of South America and South-East Asia.

WTC Moscow — center of trade innovations.

One of the main business activities is to assist Russian and foreign businesses in the search for business partners and potential investors.

WTC Moscow provides consultations on a wide range of issues concerning the preparation and education in modern business technologies, singularities of business activities in Russian regions and around the globe. This is facilitated through the access to the informational resources and databases of the CCI RF and WTCA.

CCI RF and WTC Moscow operate a joint “Business Information Exchange Network” (BIEN) — project that gives Russian and foreign entrepreneurs an opportunity to establish direct business contacts with regional CCI branches and their foreign representative offices, get access to such data services as “UN Tenders”, “Virtual Exhibitions”, “Investment Offers”.

The 43m^rd General Assembly has all chances to become one of the leading economic forums of 2012. Business community representatives from dozens of countries will visit Moscow in order to participate in this event, receive an opportunity to realize their full business potential and enter new economy markets.

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