Interfax: SPIEF organizers thank U.S. State Department urging businesses to skip forum for “informational support”

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ST. PETERSBURG. June 18 (Interfax) – The organizers of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) thank the U.S. Department of State for providing annual “informational support” to the event.

“The U.S. Department of State has provided great promotion to SPIEF. They have been doing this for four years by calling on the business community to ignore the event. We don’t feel that it’s been ignored, and we thank the State Department for informational support,” SPIEF Executive Secretary Anton Kobyakov said at a press conference on Saturday.

He said the organizing committee was unaware of any demonstrative refusals to take part in the forum.

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