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12:09, december 6, 2023
The head of the RDIF noted the attractiveness of the Russian economy in 2023 for foreign investments
Moscow. December 6. INTERFAX.RU - The growth of the Russian economy in 2023 increases the country's attractiveness for foreign investment, said Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund. He told this to journalists "on the sidelines" of President Vladimir Putin's visit to the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
"We see that the Russian economy has performed very well this year, no one believed that the growth would be 3%. This is certainly the most important and powerful growth indicator, it is the basis for the fact that investors will continue to actively invest in Russia - the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and other Gulf countries," Dmitriev said.
According to him, the investments of the UAE and Saudi Arabia "are an important example for other countries, which will also increase, we expect, in the next few years."
The head of the RDIF called Putin's current visit "a very important trip at a very important time" and added that the topic of mutual investment will be high on the agenda of the visit.
"We see that we will invest together, we will work together with the countries of the global South on a creative agenda, on an agenda that unites our efforts. Of course, the fact that we can sit down and discuss our successes in infrastructure, high technologies - this provides a very good basis for our cooperation on both OPEC+ and other important stories for us," he stressed.
Dmitriev also said that RDIF intends to attract another 1 trillion rubles of investment from Saudi Arabia in the next two years.
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