BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 16. The UAE is prepared
to broaden cooperation with Azerbaijan within the area of agriculture
and meals safety, Amna Al Dahak Al Shamsi, Minister of Local weather
Change and Setting of UAE, informed Pattern.
The minister made the comment on the sidelines of the
Azerbaijan-UAE meals and agriculture enterprise roundtable in
Baku.
“Right now, the UAE and Azerbaijan take pleasure in strategic relations.
Particularly because the signing of the great strategic
partnership cooperation settlement between the 2 nations, our
relations have entered an extra stage of growth,” she
mentioned.
Al Shamsi famous that the quantity of UAE-Azerbaijan non-oil commerce
reached US$2.4 billion, a 43 % improve over the earlier
yr.
“On the identical time, the whole quantity of investments from the UAE
and Azerbaijan is $1 billion. By way of the great strategic
partnership cooperation settlement and ongoing negotiations, we purpose
to additional develop this, particularly within the agriculture and meals
sector.
Right now’s occasion—a roundtable on agriculture and meals
enterprise—introduced collectively numerous stakeholders from the UAE,
together with nationwide authorities representatives, firms, and the
personal sector. The principle goal of this roundtable is to
provoke discussions, establish alternatives, and switch these
alternatives into concrete and important initiatives for Azerbaijan
and the UAE. As a part of these discussions, key gamers from the
UAE, akin to Silal, LULU, EFCO, and Al-Dahra, in addition to the Meals
and Beverage Enterprise Group, held conferences with Azerbaijani
companions.
We look ahead to following these discussions, making certain their
progress, and taking steps to realize our mutual objectives,” she
identified.
The minister emphasised that the UAE and Azerbaijan have
strengths within the agricultural and meals enterprise, and these
strengths can be utilized to broaden cooperation:
“Azerbaijan is robust in agriculture, whereas the UAE has
high-tech, good agriculture and powerful logistics capabilities,
which may also help open up new markets by cooperation.
We purpose to translate these discussions into concrete initiatives and
have a good time their leads to each Azerbaijan and the UAE. We intend
to proceed cooperation with the companions with whom we initiated
immediately’s talks sooner or later.
Because the UAE, we deal with numerous areas, from recent produce to
livestock, meat, and dairy merchandise. We’ll prioritize areas of
cooperation and implement this cooperation with the fitting enterprise
companions. Subsequently, it was necessary to deliver enterprise gamers
from each nations collectively on the identical desk in order that discussions
can start and be realized within the close to future,” the minister
concluded.
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