Regional partnership summit due in Istanbul in mid-December
By Sara Rajabova
The Bosphorus Regional Partnership Summit will be held for a third time in Turkey on December 13-15, 2012.
The summit will take place at the Chiragan Palace in Istanbul with attendance of government officials and businessmen from 49 countries spanning the Middle East, North Africa, and Gulf regions, Turkish republics and the Balkans.
This year Bosphorus Regional Partnership Summit will focus on the theme "Eurasia's Potential on Restructuring of Global Regime".
The summit, which will be organized by the International Cooperation Platform, is expected to attract much more attendance than in past years.
In the first year of the summit, which started in 2010, 963 delegates from 17 countries attended, with discussions focusing on "Future of International Relations and Regional Partnership Opportunities".
The second summit was held in Istanbul on November 23-25, 2011 on the topic "New Partnerships and Confidence Based Relations with Neighbors", and statistics was in focus. That year, 36 countries attended the summit. A total of 1,400 delegates attended the summit, in addition to more than 100 officials and businessmen, representing the countries whose trade volume reaches $3.3 billion.
The summit was a platform for important representatives of attendee countries in the political and economic areas and it turned potential partnerships into trading success.
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