Premier: Adoption of Serious Steps to Revive Development Process Necessary

DAMASCUS, (ST) – The Higher Investment Council (HIC), chaired by Prime Minister Imad Khamis, held a meeting between the government and partners in the economic and development process from both the public and private sectors to discuss the investment projects that are to be discussed at the first investment forum to be held on Monday. The forum aims to provide necessary facilities to push the development process ahead and revive the investment movement to strengthen the economy.

  The participants explained that the forum is an opportunity for all partners from the public and private sectors to discuss investment projects and come up with new recommendations according to a common vision by national economy partners as to mobilize all the investment projects to be put forward.

 The participants also pointed out that the number of projects to be invested in the HIC is about 150 projects in agriculture, industry, tourism and energy. These projects require the participation of the private sector to implement them properly, stressing that many facilities will be provided for these projects to invest all capital in the development process and encourage the private sector to involve in the investment process.

  “This forum will succeed in achieving its objectives only through cooperation between components of the national economy from both public and private sectors,” the participants pointed out.

 Eng. Khamis pointed out that one of the components of the economic process is the launching of the investment process and the private sector has a key role in it. This process can’t be completed except with the private sector partners, pointing out that the federations and chambers are the important component and the main partner of the government in the development process, noting that the government is moving to support the real economy by launching various industries.

 He noted the need to take a series of serious and systematic steps to revive the development process through the launch of investment projects to overcome the pressures generated by the war of terrorism, stressing that the government since the beginning of its work to revive the development process has taken a lot of the measures to reduce the remnants of the terrorist war, to achieve stability in the development process and to ensure the living requirements of citizens, who are one of the government’s top priorities.

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