He stated that the forum will not be held in the fall of 2020 due to the coronavirus epidemic.
“We decided to postpone the forum to next year and hold it in the spring, the level will be high, governmental, the international agenda will be quite serious,” RIA Novosti quotes Aksyonov.
He also said that the YIEF organizing committee will be headed by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin.
In March, Aksyonov announced that the Yalta Economic Forum had been postponed due to the coronavirus.