Kenyan High Commissioner in Pakistan David A. Mutemi has announced that his government will provide all the advanced marketing, warehouses and other related trade facilities to Sialkot business community, enabling them to capture the Kenyan and African markets. He said this while addressing a meeting of the local traders, industrialists and exporters at Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), after visiting the various leading industrial units here on Thursday.
Commercial Attache Bramah L. Kaleve, Second Secretary of in the High Commission Reuben N. Mengien and Vice-President of Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) Shafiqur Rehman were also present on this occasion.
The Kenyan High Commissioner assured the businessmen that the Kenyan government would take effective measures needed for enhancing the mutual trade volume in favour of Pakistan.
He offered some direct trade access to Sialkot businessmen, and said that Kenya would make adequate efforts for further developing and strengthening the mutual trade relations between Sialkot and the Kenyan business communities, besides removing hurdles hampering easy access of Sialkot business community to the Kenyan markets.
Welcoming the announcement SCCI Vice-President Shafiqur Rehman urged the Kenyan High Commissioner to motivate the Kenyan investors to invest in Pakistan's second Sialkot Export Processing Zone (EPZ) and avail of the benefit of the incentives and facilities available in the EPZ.
He said that Kenyan firms could establish joint ventures and business collaborations with Sialkot-based companies in the field of sports goods, surgical and musical instruments, leather goods and information technology.