OREANDA-NEWS. November 6, 2012. Public figure and Great Britain Ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair has visited Dnipropetrovsk. The well-known politician has delivered a public lecture on the reformation of economy in the XXI century and has also looked round the state-of-the-art electric steel melting mill INTERPIPE STEEL.

In the framework of the educational project of Victor Pinchuk Fund Tony Blair has spoken to students and postgraduate students of Dnipropetrovsk higher educational institutions with a lecture “Modernizing countries in the ХХІ century”. And after the lecture he has spent almost an hour, answering of young Ukrainians – about reforms, labor time organization, friendship and future of Europe and Ukraine.

When visiting the new INTERPIPE STEEL mill, the public figure has managed to see live the modernization and development of the Ukrainian metallurgy. Going around the electric steel melting complex, Tony Blair has met with young metallurgy engineers and has seen with his own eyes the unique combination of the innovative production with the contemporary art.

“I have visited a huge number of Great Britain mills. INTERPIPE STEEL is undoubtedly an outstanding creation. This is one of the best and most modern mills in the world. I am greatly impressed with the spectacular and almost fantastic design of the facility. It is a real pleasure for me to come to Dnipropetrovsk and see the true personification of the 21st century industry, – Tony Blair has commented. – It is extremely essential for Ukraine to have such a state-of-the-art production facility as INTERPIPE STEEL. The most up-to-date technologies, the brand-new approaches to the work – all these things are an enormous success for the country. The mill should become a platform for development – a symbol of what the modern industry must be like”.

This is the first visit of Tony Blair to Dnipropetrovsk. Last year, also on the invitation of Victor Pinchuk Fund, the Ex-Prime Minister of Great Britain had a meeting with Ukrainian students in Kyiv.