Memorandum of Understanding to equip and build new bakeries

Damascus (ST): The Ministry of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection signed a memorandum of understanding with Hicks Iber Organization with the aim of equipping and building new bakeries, rehabilitating and providing new production lines for public bakeries, mills and others, and providing packaging machines for food products such as bread, sugar and rice.

The memorandum also aims to provide humanitarian assistance in the field of early recovery and livelihoods for the most needy affected people within the scope of the work of the Ministry of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection in line with the goals, strategies and activities of the ministry to support its action plan under its supervision and to enhance operational and technical coordination between the two parties.

The Minister of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection, Dr. Amr Salem, indicated during the signing of the memorandum to the compatibility in the objectives between the ministry and the organization, stressing that the ministry’s ambition is to provide a qualitative service to the citizens who were affected by the war on Syria and the unjust sanctions that followed that affected the Syrian people and their livelihood.

Minister Salem referred to the ministry’s readiness to provide facilities and overcome obstacles and difficulties that may face the organization to carry out its work to the fullest.

The director of the organization’s mission in Syria, Emmanuel Tronk, confirmed that the organization’s plan aims to respond to the real population and focuses on the negative impact of economic sanctions on the Syrian people.

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