Donetsk, Jul 19 - DAN. Following trips to Donbass, French business people became interested in the economic, research and cultural potential of the Donetsk People’s Republic and are ready to consider investing in these spheres, head of the DPR representative office in Marseille Gerald-Hubert Fayard said in an interview to the  Donetsk News Agency.

“We maintain contact with people who visited Donbass and are cooperating with the investors interested in the economic, research and cultural potential of the region, so we have big plans to launch cooperation between France and the DPR in various fields,” Fayard said.

The DPR representative office, the fifth in EU countries, opened in France on September 25, 2017.*jk