MUNRFE delegation at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington D.C.
On March 27, 2015, MUNRFE Delegation to New York National Model UN 2015 (Ms. Victoria Yavorskaya, Ms. Elena Kiseleva, Ms. Olga V. Katina, Ms. Anna Ivanova and Mr. Vitaliy E. Savenkov) was honored to visit the World Bank Headquarters in Washington D.C. The delegates were granted a warm welcoming at the meeting with the World Bank Executive Director from Russia Mr. Andrey S. Lushin, who devoted his time to the delegation and shared about the experience upon his duties in the organization. Mr. Lushin and the delegates also discussed the interaction of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the current functioning of the World Bank worldwide and the future perspectives of the World Bank projects development in Russia. The visit was further followed by the meeting with the Senior Operations Officer in the Office of the Vice President for Europe and Central Asia Region Mr. Marcus Heinz, the Lead Public Sector Specialist Mr. John Ivor Beazley, the Country Program Coordinator for the Russia Federation Ms. Lada Strelkova, and the Program Assistant Ms. Maribel Cherres, who made presentations on the World Bank functions and mechanisms of work, as well as World Bank projects implementation in Russia. The presentations were accompanied by the ongoing discussion with the delegation, which made it more interactive and informative. The World Bank representatives expressed their pleasure hosting MUNRFE delegation and conveyed their hopes for future visits of MUNRFE to the World Bank Headquarters.
MUNRFE would like to express its deep gratitude to the World Bank Headquarters staff for their warm welcome of our delegation. Moreover, MUNRFE would like to sincerely thank the staff of Moscow Office of the World Bank, namely Ms. Julia Komagaeva and Ms. Larisa Fugol, for their successful arrangement of this visit. MUNRFE looks forward to continue this productive cooperation with the World Bank.