MEDIA ADVISORY: First Silk Road Investment Forum -- New Business Frontiers

MEDIA ADVISORY: First Silk Road Investment Forum -- New Business Frontiers

May 26, 2006

    A press conference will be held on 1 June (Thursday)
from 10.00 -- 11.00 in the Large Conference meeting room in
the UNDP to publicize the launch of the first Silk Road
Investment Forum to be held 7-9 June in Xi'an. 

    The forum is organised under the Silk Road Initiative
(UNDP, UNCTAD, UN WTO) in cooperation with the
CICETE/Minitry of Commerce, City of Xi'an and BOAO Forum
for Asia.

    The Silk Road Investment Forum will raise awareness
about investment opportunities, facilitate business
partnerships, and create public-private sector partnerships
for an improved business environment in the new business
frontiers of the Silk Road region.

    The aim is to help the region reclaim its historic
position as a strategic crossroads between east and west
and stimulate investment opportunities based on
partnership, complementarity, and diversity. The forum's
regional approach will complement individual country
strategies and enable them to compete more effectively with
other economies and regions throughout the world.

    -- WHAT:   Investment opportunities and barriers to
trade along the Silk 
               Road (Discussion topics at the forum)
               Participation from China and Central Asia
(Who's coming)
               Benefits and expected results for China and
Central Asia

    -- WHERE:  Large Conference Meeting Room, UNDP
building
               Address: No. 2 Liangmahe Nanlu, 100600
Beijing, 
               Tel: [phone] 

    -- WHEN:   10:00-11:00, 1 June 2006 (Thursday)

    -- WHO:    The panel will consist of: 

            *  Mr. Khalid Malik, UN Resident Coordinator
and UNDP Resident 
               Representative in China 
            *  Mr. Wojciech H¨¹bner, CTA, Silk Road
Inititaive
            *  Mr. Wang Yue, DG of CICETE
            *  Mr. Yao Shenhong, MD of Institute of BOAO
Forum For Asia
            *  Mr. Ma Yuliang, Vice President of China
Group Companies                        Promotions 
Association

    For more information, please contact:

     Ms. Line Konstad, 
     Silk Road Initiative
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

SOURCE  United Nations Development Programme