MUSCAT: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been chosen because the visitor of honour for the twenty ninth St Petersburg Worldwide Financial Discussion board (SPIEF), which can be held from June 3 to six, 2026, on the ExpoForum Exhibition and Conference Heart, with the participation of 130 international locations.
The Sultanate of Oman was the visitor of honour of the twenty seventh version of the SPIEF held within the 12 months 2024, which witnessed a top-level delegation highlighting its funding ecosystem and selling sectors like tourism, logistics, and know-how. In SPIEF 2025, Oman continued its sturdy participation, with a delegation spearheaded by the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Funding Promotion (MoCIIP) to draw worldwide funding in alignment with Oman Imaginative and prescient 2040. Within the current version, an Omani delegation beneath the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Funding Promotion (MoCIIP) will attend the 4 day convention.
The SPIEF is a outstanding annual Russian enterprise and financial occasion. Established in 1997 and held beneath the patronage of the Russian President since 2006, it attracts over 10,000 international contributors, together with heads of state, policymakers, and company executives.
The discussion board, organised by the Roscongress Basis beneath the auspices of Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, is the nation’s premier enterprise occasion and a geopolitical and financial device for consolidating Russia’s international orientation in the direction of the World South. The discussion board’s agenda immediately displays profound modifications within the international economic system and shifts in established mechanisms of worldwide cooperation.
The discussion board’s theme is ‘Pragmatic Dialogue: The Path to a Secure Future.’ The official enterprise programme is split into 4 primary thematic areas: the worldwide economic system: a brand new platform for international progress; the Russian economic system: a brand new stage of progress; know-how: the pursuit of management; and humanity within the new world.
As well as, the occasion will embrace greater than 15 bilateral dialogues with international locations and regional blocs, together with the Roscongress Worldwide Cooperation platform and the SPIEF Funding and Enterprise Exhibition. The SPIEF Junior Discussion board will conclude the occasion on June 6.
The agenda features a extremely anticipated dialogue with the American enterprise neighborhood, and US President Donald Trump is predicted to ship Rodney Prepare dinner, Chairman of the American Fee on the Tremendous Arts, as his consultant.
Anton Kobyakov, an advisor to the Russian president, stated, “The broad worldwide illustration on the discussion board confirms that it stays an important international platform for constructing partnerships, exchanging experiences, and outlining new areas of cooperation.”
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin despatched an official message of welcome to the discussion board’s contributors and organisers, emphasising that “the discussion board will focus on essentially the most urgent points going through the Russian and international economies.”
“This 12 months’s assembly theme, ‘Pragmatic Dialogue: The Path to a Secure Future, immediately displays the important challenges of our time. At a time when worldwide relations and financial ties are going through unprecedented challenges, divisions, and disruptions in provide chains and know-how, pragmatism and dialogue based mostly on equality have gotten extra pressing and necessary than ever,” he added.
He additional affirmed that the discussions would contribute to creating new and efficient options in all areas of financial and social life, together with vitality, digital transformation, meals safety, human capital growth, and strengthening monetary and commerce sovereignty, in a approach that serves the pursuits of the individuals and enhances worldwide stability.
