A delegation of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry together with RA Deputy Prime Minister Aleksander Stranichkin is visiting Tunisia.

Alexander Ankvab met with the Minister for Taxes and Fees Rauf Tsimtsba.

The minister reported on the state of affairs with tax payments to the budget. For the time being the budget received Rub 1 billion 886 million as compared to the planned Rub 2 billion 22 million.

Today, the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Abkhazia signed a licence-agreement "On the use of sub-soil coal-deposits in Tqwarchal for the purposes of exploration, development and mining” with the firm "Natural resources of the Black Sea". The agreement was signed by Minister of Economy of the Republic of Abkhazia, David Iradyan, and General Director of "Black Sea natural resources", Jasvinder Singh. This company is a subsidiary of the company "Natural resources of the Black Sea", which, in turn, is a subsidiary of the Indian Steel Company. The level of investment is predicted to be $ 70-100 million.

Alexander Ankvab met with the Russian President’s aide on interaction with Abkhazia and South Ossetia Vladislav Surkov.

The President received the head of the Abkhazian trade mission in the Russian Federation Oleg Bartsits, the executive director of the International cultural and business center of Abkhazia Oleg Lakoba and the director of development of the center Petr Bereza.