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DECEMBER    1999      # 0008

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Janet Bell and Denise Owen are getting acquainted with the records of technical tasks at the venues of the EBRD Meeting.

NEWS IN BRIEF

MEETING OF THE ADVISORY BOARD

On 16 November a regular meeting of the Advisory Board was convened concerning the organization of the Baltic business summit on the occasion of the EBRD Board of Governors’ Annual Meeting. The final version of the event’s title - Baltic Business Conference - was approved during the meeting. The conference time was scheduled for 19 and 22 May. The organization teams involved in the process of arranging this event and their leaders were appointed as well.

SELGA LAIZANE GOES TO LONDON FOR A WORKING VISIT

On 23 November, following an invitation of the EBRD, Selga Laizane, Director of Birojs 2000, took part in the Constituency Meeting for Latvian, Finnish and Norwegian Representatives arranged by the EBRD Executive Director. Amid other topics, the course of preparation for the EBRD Annual Meeting in Riga was discussed.

EBRD REPRESENTATIVES VISIT VENUES

To discuss the organization of the Board of Governors’ Meeting the EBRD representatives arrived in Riga on a working visit between 6 – 10 December. During their stay they visited all the venues of the EBRD Meeting in Riga, got acquainted with the records of all the necessary technical tasks, partially decided the spatial distribution of the required services and equipment. The EBRD representatives also met with several Latvian company representatives and entrepreneurs who will offer their services, for example, printing services, mobile telephone communications, etc., during the Meeting.