Adviser to the President of Russia Anton
Kobyakov has chaired an interdepartmental meeting on the planned events of the
Russian SCO 2019-2020 and BRICS 2020 chairmanship, including those to be held
in Chelyabinsk. The meeting in Moscow was attended by members of the
Chelyabinsk Region government and federal executive agencies.
The participants discussed the
infrastructure readiness and environment in Chelyabinsk, the development of
public spaces, as well as the construction and the modernisation of hotels and
urban recreation sites.
According to the Chelyabinsk officials,
Kurchatov International Airport opened a new terminal on 26 November 2019 to
help streamline logistics. The terminal has a total space of 16,500 square
metres and can deal with around 2 million passengers annually.
Chelyabinsk, which is often referred to as
the capital of the South Urals, will be the venue of the Conference of SCO
Ministers of Transport and several expert meetings held to prepare it, as well
as the Cancer Control Summit 2020, the Business Forum and a board meeting of
the SCO Business Council.
Special attention will be given to
organising the first SCO Forum of Regional Heads scheduled for May 2020 in
Chelyabinsk. It should become a new discussion and analysis platform and used
to make the interregional cooperation of the SCO member states systematic and
subject focused, as well as to create conditions for direct interaction and the
exchange of experience and best practices of regional development.
Overall,
Chelyabinsk will be the venue of 22 events of Russia’s chairmanship in the SCO
in 2019-2020 and in BRICS in 2020. The SCO and BRICS summits will be held in St
Petersburg between 21 and 23 July.