On 25 November Andris Berzins, Chairman of the Riga City Council,
Andris Argalis, Deputy Chairman, and Andris Grinbergs, Executive Director of the Riga City
Council, got acquainted with the process of the reconstruction at the Congress Centre and
the construction of the underground parking lot at Kronvalda Park. During their visit to
the Congress Centre Selga Laizane, Director of Birojs 2000, and Maris Tiknuss, Birojs 2000
Project Manager, accompanied them.
The tendered right to perform the reconstruction of the Congress Centre
was granted to SIA Skonto Buve by the Riga City Council. In May 2000 this site is
scheduled to host the plenary sessions of the EBRD Board of Governors’ Annual Meeting,
as well as to accommodate the delegation offices and the Filing Centre.
On the same day the current meeting of EBRD Annual Meeting Organisation
Supervisory Committee took place at the Riga Latvian Society House and started with a
site-tour to get acquainted with the restoration and renovation carried out there. The
restoration and renovation of the Riga Latvian Society House is performed by a/s
Restaurators.
Participants of the Supervisory Committee meeting approved the changes
in the concept of the prospective catalogue Latvia and took note of the information
that Janis Domburs, Director of NIP Birojs, was appointed the Chief Editor of the
catalogue. Also, the concept and contents were approved for the informative publication of
the social programme. The participants of the meeting approved the sponsorship proposal
placed by Nordic Investment Bank with regard to the working lunch of the ministerial
summit of the Baltic Sea region countries.
A number of decisions were made in respect of the Baltic Business
Conference, which is scheduled to take place on the occasion of the EBRD Annual Meeting.
The participants of the meeting took note of and approved the form and procedure of the
organisation of the conference as proposed by Birojs 2000. It was also decided that
the Advisory Board of the Baltic Business Conference is entitled to take decisions
pertinent to the organisation of the conference.
