Azerbaijan envoy invites Pak businessmen to exhibition

LAHORE: Ambassador of Azerbaijan Dashgin Shikarov has invited the Pakistani businessmen to participate in the exhibition and forum being planned for April 2016 in Azerbaijan and Pakistan.
He was talking to LCCI President Sheikh Muhammad Arshad at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry. LCCI Executive Committee members were also present on the occasion.
The ambassador said that the proposed exhibition and forum will provide Pakistani entrepreneurs an opportunity to establish close contacts with their counterparts in Azerbaijan.
He said that Azerbaijan is keen to strengthen trade & economic ties with Pakistan. He said that joint efforts from the business community of both sides can help tap huge potential exist in both countries. He said that bilateral trade between the two countries could be flourished through exchange of trade delegations and holding of single country exhibitions.
Speaking on the occasion, the LCCI President Sheikh Muhammad Arshad said that both Pakistan and Azerbaijan have good diplomatic relations and enjoy strong bonds of Islamic brotherhood but regretted that Pakistan does not figure prominently among the trading partners of Azerbaijan. He said that the main reason of such a low level of trade is lack of proper information about each other’s markets. He proposed that the commercial sections of our respective embassies should share market survey reports with their national chambers.
Arshad said that the ground realities favour trading of such products which are light in weight and costly in terms of value. Since the businessmen choose to get their shipments airlifted because of difficult and risky land routes, so, we need to identify more such items like sports goods, technical/medical apparatus, tobacco and precious stones etc.