Promotion of trade: FCCI terms delegation’s visit to Turkey a success

Chamber planning another three visits to different countries .

FAISALABAD:

Earlier this month, the Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (FCCI) delegation visited Turkey, which turned out to be a success and as a result, a delegation of Istanbul Chamber of Commerce will visit the FCCI in return.

“The FCCI is planning another three delegations to various countries during August,” said Engineer Suhail Bin Rashid, president of FCCI.

He was speaking to the FCCI delegation that recently returned from Turkey.

The head of delegation Rashid Munir briefed the FCCI president about his meetings and achievements.  “The Turkish entrepreneurs have not yet fully realised the textile potential of Pakistan as they consider Pakistan as one of the third world countries.”

He said that Istanbul Chamber of Commerce was informed of Pakistan’s tremendous progress in the textile sector.

“Pakistan’s textile exports are earning about $13 billion per annum,” he said.

He told the president that Turkish entrepreneurs were surprised to hear that Pakistan was consuming a huge quantity of textile chemicals.

He said that some of the Turkish businessmen have agreed to plan a delegation to visit the FCCI in the near future. They were inclined to set up distribution offices of their companies in Faisalabad on a top priority basis.

He said that the office bearers of Istanbul Chamber of Commerce hoped that the exchange of delegations between Pakistan and Turkey will continue to explore new avenues of cooperation in different sectors of the economy.

He also quoted his meeting with Pakistan’s Consul General in Turkey and said that he also hoped to hear that the FCCI delegation was serious and had made full deliberations with the sector-specific persons.

However, he regretted that he was unable to arrange more meetings with the businessmen as they were informed of the delegation visit at the nick of the time. But he assured to extend full courtesy to the next delegation from the FCCI.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 4^th, 2014.

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