ArmInfo.On October 22-25, Armenian President Armen Sarkissian will visit the Swiss Confederation to attend the 6th World Investment Forum 2018 (World Investment Forum 2018) organized by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), which will be titled "Investment - in the name of sustainable development." According to the press service of the President of Armenia, Armen Sarkissian will speak at the Summit of World Leaders organized within the framework of the forum.
The Armenian President will also attend the opening of the 20th annual session of the prestigious international forum Crans Montana and will be the main speaker during discussions on local and global security issues.
The Crans Montana Forum is an influential forum for international cooperation, with more than 100 leaders from different countries participating in its annual events. In an informal setting, they discuss issues related to social, economic, and security issues.
The UNCTAD World Investment Forum is the leading global platform for developing strategies and addressing global challenges in investment and development. The biennial forum brings together more than 4,000 investment partners from 160 countries, including high-level members from the global investment community, including heads of state and government, ministers, heads of global companies and stock exchanges, heads of investment promotion agencies, international experts on investment placement, heads of international organizations, parliamentarians, representatives of civil society, prominent scholars and international media. The upcoming forum will reveal global challenges for international investment in the new era of globalization and industrialization. It is expected that in 2018 more than 5,000 investment partners, philanthropists, fund managers and other innovators in the field of sustainable development will take part in the World Investment Forum.