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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Yasser Ali: Morsi's visit to Turkey focused on the issues of the economy and increased investment



Looking President Mohamed Morsy during his short visit to Turkey, which begins today, and a one-day, files bilateral cooperation between Egypt and Turkey, especially with regard to increase investments and Turkish tourism in Egypt, also reviews in two matches with Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to strengthen bilateral relations in various fields, and a number of regional issues of common concern.

This was stated on Sunday, Dr. Yasser on Spokesman of the Presidency, said President Marina will meet during the visit Business Council Egyptian Turkish where accompanied by a delegation of Egyptian businessmen and to explore investment opportunities in Egypt and the establishment of joint ventures in various production and service activities and discuss ways to develop trade relations and investment between the two countries, and the definition of investors and business opportunities in both countries. "

He added that President Marina will review with his Turkish counterpart, Prime Minister last developments of the Syrian crisis and a solution to her away from foreign intervention to stop the bleeding blood Syrian people, as Turkey is a member of the Quartet proposed by President Marina and also includes Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran, also addresses the talks support case Palestinian and alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people.

The spokesman said he expected to attend President Marina during the visit Third General Conference of the ruling Justice and Development Party in Turkey, adding that the president's visit Marina to Ankara came under the good continuing to open channels of communication with the various countries of the world to support the Egyptian economy in transition Democratic and attract foreign investment and stimulate tourism and expand trade so as to increase Egyptian exports including reflected in the end to increase the resources of the state of foreign exchange and provide more job opportunities for citizens, as The visit comes within the framework of strengthening economic participation between Egypt and Turkey, and investment heavyweight political and strategic for both countries in the region to achieve growth and stability in order to serve the interests of the two peoples linked by historical ties multiple.

It is scheduled to review the Egyptian Business Council Turkish during a meeting in Ankara mechanisms to encourage the private sector in both countries to establish joint projects in Egypt and the payment of Turkish investments in Egypt in the field of garment manufacturing and tourism, and give a boost to the industrial zone Turkish Ismailia and the draft Turkish textile industry in Damietta investments $ 250 million for opening soon.

The Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu had announced during his visit to Cairo in mid-September the current to reach agreement with the Egyptian government to provide Turkey $ 2 billion deposit and investments of the Central Bank of Egypt so that these investments are concentrated in small and medium-sized enterprises.

The Cabinet approved the start talks with the Turkish side for the conduct of shipping line and facilitate the transport and transit through Egyptian territory, to be Egypt gate Turkish foreign trade for the Gulf States and Asia and Europe through the port of Alexandria Safaga, where the goods Turkish to Alexandria and then trucks transported the port of Safaga in the Red Sea and then to the Arab Gulf countries, Asia, Europe, and through the Convention defines a transfer fee and transit trucks worth up to a thousand dollars a day, in addition to the accounting of these trucks price actual fuel at the time of supply without state support, in addition to development projects and projects major proposed and which serve the Convention, where abide Turkish side train workers in logistics services during the coming period, which is expected to become Egypt where point concentration trade between Turkey and the countries of the world, and a neighbor drafting of the convention in light of the standards and regulations set by the designated committee and the ministers concerned.

It was also agreed during the visit by Bashir Otalay Turkish Deputy Prime Minister to Cairo in March to expand trade exchange between Egypt and Turkey and increase the volume of Turkish investments operating in the Egyptian market and the transfer of Turkish goods that were transported in the past via the Syrian through ports and Egyptian territories, It was also agreed to sign soon an agreement on maritime transport between the two countries.

The Bashir Otalay Turkish Deputy Prime Minister he urged in a meeting with Turkish investors in Egypt to continue to pump their investments and expand so as increase the volume of production Turkish companies operating on Egyptian territory and including more job opportunities for Egyptian citizens, pointing out that the volume of trade exchange between the two countries during the in 2010 amounted to nearly three billion dollars.

Also conveyed a verbal message of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey concerning the readiness of his country to support the Egyptian economy, and added that he has been following up the implementation of the results of his two visits to Egypt recently from Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Erdogan.

He pointed out that the meeting also addressed the importance of strengthening relations economic and trade cooperation through the activation of the Joint Committee Egyptian-Turkish economic cooperation and technical, which was its last meeting in October 1996, also emphasized the importance of taking advantage of the expertise in the fields of general education and technical, and encourage participation in exhibitions and international markets and tourist events and exchange of information and experiences in the field of tourism investment and benefit from the Turkish experience in the field of tourism products.

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