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CCC delegation for Partnership Summit in Bangalore The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) will send a delegation to the Confederation of Indian Industry's (CII) Partnership Summit which was scheduled to be held from January 5 to 11 in the Silicon Valley of India, the city of Bangalore. The Partnership Summit, the eighth in a series of such summits, promises to be an outstanding policy briefing and interaction on business strategy, competition, trade, technology and the management of people. It is expected to create a high-level business forum for developing real, strategic business alliances - across functional areas - business economic and social. It will create a unique forum for networking with world states people and business leaders on one platform. The Partnership Summit 2002 will be inaugurated by the Prime Minister of UK, Tony Blair and will be attended by almost 800 decision-makers from India and overseas. The summit has traditionally evoked a great response from government and business delegations from a number of countries and regions. The Chamber's delegation will be led by Mano Selvanathan who is the Co-Chairman of the Joint Economic Council of the CCC and the CII and will include Chandra Jayaratne, CCC Chairman, Tilak de Zoysa, CCC Vice Chairman, Ayoni Waniganayake, Assistant Secretary General, Vivendra Lintotawela, Chairman, John Keells Holdings (JKH), Susantha Ratnayake, Director, JKH, Suraj Fernando, Joint Managing Director, Carmart Ltd, Arjuna Mahendra, chairman Board of Investment (BoI), Shehara de Silva, Deputy Director General, Promotions, BoI, C. Ignatius of BoI and Senthil Gopinath, Deputy General Manager, Sri Lanka Convention Bureau. Ranjith Fernando, Secretary to the Ministry of Enterprise Development, Industrial Policy and Investment Promotion is also expected to participate in the delegation. The CCC delegation will participate at a special session on Sri Lanka at the Partnership Summit on January 8 which would mainly focus on the promotion of the Free Trade Agreement. The Joint Economic Council of the Ceylon Chamber and the Confederation of Indian Industry will also meet in Bangalore on the same day. |
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