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NEAR Secretariat Attends ‘Eurasia City Forum 2018’2018-12-13

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A NEAR delegation headed by Director Park Sung-min and Manager Choi Ju-hwa and other staff members of the International Cooperation Department attended the Eurasia City Forum 2018 which was held at the Westin Chosun Busan and hosted by Busan Metropolitan City on Thursday, December 6. The forum was held under the theme, “Why Eurasia is important in the era of Coexistence of South and North Korea.”

The forum was held to discuss cooperation in the railway and port logistics sectors connecting Busan, South Korea to regions in Eurasia based on the "New Northern Policy" of the Korean government in the atmosphere of improvement of inter-Korean relations.


Ivan TONKIKH, CEO of Rasoncontrans (Center)


The forum was attended by Ivan TONKIKH, CEO of Rasoncontrans, a joint corporation between North Korea and Russia which operated 'Najin-Hassan Project,' a joint business among South Korea, North Korea, and Russia, and Murat Baimukhanbetov, head of the Khorgos-Eastern Gates Special Economic Zone (SEZ). The participants held practical discussions and had opportunities to interact with each other.