A delegation of PakTurk Businessmen Association (PTBA) called on President Saarc Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) Tariq Sayeed and discussed prospects of business promotion between Saarc member countries and Turkey by increasing private sector engagements.
The delegation comprised A Cuneyt Zumrutpinar, President PTBA and Mehmet Necmettin Durmus, Managing Director of PTBA, said a SCCI press release here on Tuesday. Tariq Sayeed enlightened the top management of the PTBA about SCCI objectives and activities in the region to promote regional economic cooperation.
The delegation members invited the SCCI President to lead a delegation to the Turkey-Asia-Pacific Foreign Trade Bridge-II, which is scheduled for June 17-18 this year in Istanbul. They further elaborated that previously the Asia Pacific Summit in 2007 proved to be successful beyond expectations, resulting in some very productive work by bringing business communities of Turkey and Asia/Pacific together.
Last year, 12 ministries, 40 bureaucrats, 30 journalists and more than 250 businessmen from 14 Asia/Pacific countries came to Istanbul. These entrepreneurs met Turkish businessmen at bilateral meetings and laid foundations for a long-term trade volume of 2 billion dollars.
Zumrutpinar said that success and fruitfulness of the first event has encouraged the Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists of Turkey to organise another such event under the co-ordination of the Prime Ministry's Under-secretariat for Foreign Trade of Republic of Turkey.
This time the event is being organised on a much bigger scale and the number of the participating countries and foreign businessmen increased from 14 to 22 and from 250 to 450 respectively, he said.
The major countries going to take part in the trade bridge include Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and Brunei.
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