Cairo in nov25,2021
Yesterday in the Tunisian capital, intensive discussions were held between Mr. Anis Jaziri, chairman of the Tunisian African Business Council, and Dr. Yousrey Elsharkawi, chairman of the Egyptian-African Businessmen Association, who is visiting Tunisia with an invitation to attend the African Health and Medical Tourism Conference 2021, which is organized in strategic partnership with the Association, with the presence and participation of 20 countries, including 8 African countries, and the two parties met with the aim of serious discussion and coordination of efforts in many axes to create a common ground and a new depth for cooperation between the Council and its more than 350 members between distinguished men, women and entrepreneurs in the Tunisian private sector in various fields, and between the Association of Businessmen The African Egyptians and their members, and this will result in the unification of visions and goals in the joint African action.
Elsharkawi stressed, “We know very well the importance of cooperation with Tunisian brothers, and that the Tunisian business community is now witnessing severe changes for the better, and is now thinking well of entering the depths of the African continent and not relying on the European Union markets, which have lost and missed many great opportunities and weakened the maximization of returns and reduced the chances of sustainable progress.” And growth for the better, and that African markets, specifically West and Central Africa, will be the important destination for Tunisian goods and investments. Egypt adopts a strategy in which the African continent is an important axis and a goal that cannot be achieved without neutrality.
Regarding the Tunisian-Egyptian cooperation with the Libyan side, Al-Sharqawi indicated that the association has a representative and a presence in Benghazi, and that the Tunisian-African Council has good relations with the Libyan private sector in Tripoli. For the Egyptian, Libyan and Tunisian private sectors, and in this context, we will launch an annual conference for investment and trade for the private sector, hosted annually by each of the three countries. It will be a forum for presenting well-studied projects with different investment sizes, as well as a specialized exhibition for the products of the three countries, with the invitation of some strategic partners from the international community.
Mr. Anis Al-Jaziri, chairman of the Tunisian African Council, expressed his confidence in the Egyptian-African Businessmen Association, which in the past two years has reflected a different form than the performance of modern serious business organizations in Egypt. Business and finance community.
Al-Jaziri indicated, “We will offer many joint activities together, and we are welcome and optimistic, and we know that you are the key to our presence in East and Southern Africa and the COMESA and English-speaking markets, and we are fully prepared for any cooperation that guarantees the arrival of Egyptian goods and the increase of Egyptian exports in West Africa, a methodology that has been absent from us for years and has affected us.” All of us, and this is a time of calculated and controlled integration and competition for the full benefit of the two countries.
Al-Jaziri asked the chairman of the Egyptian-African Businessmen Association to prepare for an expanded virtual meeting between the members of the council and the association for more acquaintance and to create a new spirit of friendliness, as well as to start immediately as strategic partners to prepare for the second edition of the African International Investment Conference, which will be held in Tunisia in May 2022 amid A global presence from all countries of the African continent and different levels of representation.