The Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council has decided to have representation in Russia,according to its announcement at the IIJS Signature Gem and Jewellery trade show in Goa. For this, GJEPC's chairman Sanjay Kothari and Moscow Diamond Bourse chief executive Alex Popov, signed a memorandum of understanding, making the Bourse as the official representative office of the GJEPC. GJEPC intends the office to be a platform of communication between the two countries, which would increase their respective trade ties within the diamond industry.