As part of her participation in the World Economic Forum, the Head of Government, Najla Bouden held yesterday, Wednesday, January 18, meetings with the Heads of State and Governments of brotherly and friendly countries, in addition to officials of international organizations and funders.
The Prime Minister thus spoke with the Iraqi President, Abdellatif Rachid, renewing her congratulations to him on his election as head of Iraq.
The discussions focused on “the common denominators, which have united the two peoples throughout history, as well as on bilateral cooperation and the mechanisms capable of relaunching it in various fields, in particular, with regard to the development of investments which are likely to create a dynamic of economic complementarity between the two countries, particularly in the scientific and technological fields”.
The Iraqi head of state conveyed his greetings to his Tunisian counterpart, expressing the wish to meet him soon, indicating a press release from the presidency of the government.
Bowden also met with the South Korean Head of State, Yoon Seok-you, to discuss forms of bilateral cooperation, as well as ways to develop them and open up new prospects for investment partnerships, encompassing the public and private sectors. It was also a question of “devoting lines of credit to start-ups, supporting the renewal mechanism, and taking advantage of Tunisia’s position and its links with the free trade zones of the African Union, the Arab world, the Maghreb Union and the European Union, with a view to creating opportunities for tripartite and multilateral cooperation”.
The head of government also met with her Dutch counterpart, Mark Rutte, around “the reality of bilateral relations between the two countries, and the prospects for promoting them, in common sectors responding to economic developments on an international scale, like green sustainable development projects, renewable energies, in particular, in the face of fluctuations in the global energy market, and their major repercussions on food security, and in terms of climate change.
The talks of the Tunisian delegation to the Swiss city of Davos were also conducted with the envoy of the Palestinian president to the World Economic Forum, executive member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and president of the Palestinian fund for the investment, Mohamed Mustapha.
Bouden thus reiterated Tunisia’s constant position alongside the Palestinian people, and its just cause, with a view to recovering its rights, at their head the establishment of its independent and sovereign state, with al-Quds as its capital.
Cooperation programs and mechanisms were also at the center of talks between the Tunisian side and the Executive Director of AFD, as well as the Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The Davos Forum, the annual meeting of the elite of economy and finance and the political elite from all over the planet, closes its work today, after four days of analysis of the state of the world, by opening up new avenues of reflection to solve major challenges and inextricable difficulties, from which no country is immune.