KYIV. Sept 7 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine has helped Ukrainian companies-exporters to sign contracts worth $700 million in 2014, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said.
“Last year our companies signed contracts worth over $700 million with the direct assistance of the Foreign Ministry,” Klimkin said at a meeting of the Council of Exporters and Investors at the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine in Kyiv last week.
The minister said that raising the awareness of foreign partners about Ukrainian should be made a priority to help Ukrainian businesses.
The ministry has proposed that a new secretariat of the Council of Exporters is created and the respective website – www.rei.mfa.gov.ua – has been launched. It would be the key instrument of the Council of Exporters, comprising the economic and business information aggregator from the Foreign Ministry, foreign diplomatic institutions of Ukraine, and national producers to promote Ukrainian goods to foreign markets. Foreign companies would find information they need on the website to invest in order to invest in the Ukrainian economy.
The consolidated data on the prospects of doing business abroad, primary trends of promising foreign markets, announcements on holding tenders abroad, and business offers of foreign companies could be found on the website, as well as announcements on business forums and fairs, the required contacts of foreign diplomatic institutions of Ukraine abroad, and the formats of inquiries to promote entering foreign markets.
The English version of the website is oriented to foreign companies interested in establishing cooperation with Ukrainian partners and realizing investment projects in Ukraine.
