DUSHANBE, October 19, Asia-Plus – On Wednesday October 18, Sharif Saidov, the head of Tajikistan’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI), met with visiting Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa to Tajikistan B. Gill.
The CCI press service said that the meeting focused on the issues related to establishment of active trade and economic cooperation between the two countries. Saidov offered the South African diplomat to consider the possibility of holding a universal exhibition of goods of South Africa and business forum in Dushanbe that would facilitate the establishment of an active economic cooperation between Tajikistan and Africa.
According to the source, Saidov briefed Gill on the present political and socioeconomic situation in Tajikistan and outlined agrarian and energy sectors, processing, light and food industries as well as tourism, as areas of which could drive the bilateral cooperation between Tajikistan and South Africa.
He noted that Tajikistan had adopted a number of laws creating favorable investment environment for foreign entrepreneurs. Saidov also noted Tajikistan attended the Fourth World Congress of Chambers of Commerce and Industry in South Africa’s Durban last year. Tajik Durban CCIs signed a cooperation agreement, according to him.
For his part, the South African diplomat expressed readiness to take efforts to promote further expansion of cooperation between the two CCIs. “The next delegation from South Africa will be more respectable and we hope our businessmen will definitely find partners in Tajikistan with support of the Tajik CCI,” the South African ambassador said.
