The richest man in the world, Mexican telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim will visit Macedonia.
Slim, whose wealth is estimated at US$69 million according to Forbes magazine, is going to attend an IT conference in Ohrid taking place on March 31-April 2. The Mexican businessman is expected to chair a meeting of theBroadband Commission for Digital Development, which has been formed by the International Telecommunication Union and UNESCO.
The Ohrid event will be also attended by a top government delegation, led by Premier Nikola Gruevski, who is scheduled to deliver an address at the conference. Gruevski and economic ministers at a working meeting with Slim will present several projects and investments in the IT sector, energy and mining.
"Hopefully, Slim will find these projects interesting and we'll maintain contact in order the business cooperation to be developed hoping that he will invest in Macedonia," said Minister of Information Society and Administration Ivo Ivanovski on Friday, who has been a member of the Broadband Commission for Digital Development for two years.
Ivanovski added that Slim hadn't invested in Europe so far, but his companies and himself had shown interest to expand businesses.
"As he has said in his latest interview in 'The New York Times', Slim is constantly looking for opportunities to invest. We expect some of the projects which will be presented to be interesting for him," he said.
The Commission will be convened for the first time outside the UN offices in Geneva, Paris or New York. The meeting will also include co-chair, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, as well as commission members, including CEOs of world's largest IT companies such as Intel, Ericsson, Telefonica, Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei Technologies etc.
U.S. magazine "Forbes" has declared Mexican businessman of Lebanese descent Carlos Slim the richest man in the world for three years running. He is the chairman and chief executive of telecommunications companies Telmex and America Movil and has extensive holdings in other Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso SAB, as well as business interests elsewhere in the world.
