International Maritime Organisation Secretary-General to feature in Tbilisi Silk Road Forum
Lim will deliver a presentation at the Middle Corridor session, which will be attended by high-ranking representatives of the governments of Georgia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, and the Secretary General of the International Road Transport Union Umberto de Pretto. Photo via Economy Ministry
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Kitack Lim, the Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organisation, will feature in the fourth edition of the Tbilisi Silk Road Forum, an event set to host thousands of representatives from 60 countries between October 26-27, the Economy Ministry said on Friday.
Lim will deliver a presentation at the Middle Corridor session, which will be attended by high-ranking representatives of the governments of Georgia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, and the Secretary General of the International Road Transport Union Umberto de Pretto.
He has been serving as the IMO Secretary-General since 2016, after having been the Director-General of the Korean Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs. Before that, he had worked at the Korean Embassy in London and had been a permanent representative in the IMO.
The Silk Road Forum will be attended by an “unprecedentedly high number” of participants - up to 2,000 delegates from both governmental and private sectors. Global economic challenges, ways of solving them and aspects and perspectives of cooperation for connectivity will be discussed at the Forum.
The Ministry said 10 sessions would be hosted on the first day of the Forum, with day two used for discussion of Georgia's investment opportunities and B2B meetings.
Founded by Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, the first edition of the Forum was hosted in Tbilisi in 2015.
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