UAE ambassador visits ICCI

Islamabad

The Ambassador of United Arab Emirates Essa Abdullah Al Basha Al Noaimi said that if developed on modern lines, Pakistan's dairy sector has the potential to promote €20 billion exports of dairy products to Europe and other countries.

He said UAE considered Pakistan an important country of Muslim world and wanted to further enhance bilateral trade with it. He said this while addressing business community at Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI).

He said under UAE's Pakistan Assistance Program, 165 projects were launched in Pakistan in health, education, infrastructure development and other areas that would mitigate the problems of Pakistani people.

He said UAE was going to organize first international level "Expo 2020" in which 80 countries would participate and about 50 million people would visit this event. He invited Pakistani business community to participate in that Expo and explore new business opportunities. He said businessmen could set up pavilions or hire space in that Expo. He said about 600 Pakistani companies were doing successful business in free economic zones of UAE while about 1.1 million Pakistanis were contributing to its economic development. He assured that UAE would continue to assist Pakistan for its better economic development.