On 10 June this year representatives of the Alcatel-Lucent company led by the Consul General of the Kingdom of Belgium in St Petersburg, Marie-Johane Roccas, made a working visit to Krasnodar. The programme of the visit included meetings with the Head of Department for Transport and Communications of Krasnodar Region, as well as negotiations with the management of the Yuzhnaya Telekommunikatsionnaya Kompaniya on expanding the sphere of cooperation in the field of telecommunications. The meeting was held in the Department for Transport and Communications and attended by the First Deputy Head of the Department, Denis Zabolotnii. During the negotiations the Belgian side accepted an invitation to take part in the VIII International Investment Forum, Sochi 2009. The parties agreed to carry out the next stages of the negotiations at the Forum.