The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, attended the 3rd Italian-Arab Business Forum of the Joint Italian Arab Chamber of Commerce in Milan, at the presence of the representatives of the institutions and the business community of Italy and of Arab Countries.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday\u2019s Forum represents and important opportunity to reaffirm the strategic relevance that Italy attributes to Arab Countries and to emphasise our intention to strengthen our economic ties with the MENA region,\u201d said the Deputy Minister in her opening remarks.<\/p>\n
The presence of Italian companies in the region, she said, is on a constant uptrend (+ 22% in the last 10 years), not only through large groups but also with our SMEs. To confirm this trend, in 2019 the Situation Room for Internationalisation listed 4 MENA States as\u00a0\u00a0priority Countries: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Tunisia, and the resources for the Extraordinary Plan to Promote Made-in-Italy products and Attract Investment targeted on the MENA region were increased from 4.4 million in 2018 to 6.3 million euros in 2019. The Deputy Foreign Minister continued by referring to the study on the impact of Italy\u2019s economic diplomacy commissioned by the Foreign Ministry which shows that the MENA region is the geographic area in which Italian companies recorded the best performances thanks to the institutional support provided by the Foreign Ministry and its diplomatic and consular network.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that there is still room for greater reciprocal investments to expand and intensify the partnership between our Countries,\u201d Del Re said. She Added: \u201cI am confident that the inflow of FDIs from your Countries will further increase in the near future, especially in the South of Italy, which is another priority for the Italian Government.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe turbulence that has characterised this region in the past few years has not prevented the business community \u2013 today so eminently represented \u2013 from going forward along the road of economic cooperation. We have built \u2013 and intend to consolidate \u2013 an economic partnership based on mutual trust and respect,\u201d concluded the Deputy Foreign Minister.<\/p>\n
On the sidelines of the Forum, Deputy Minister Del Re held two bilateral meetings with the Minister of Industry, Trade and Supply of Jordan, Tariq Hammouri and with the Minister of Commerce and Industry of Qatar, Ali Bin Ahmed Al Kuwari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, attended the 3rd Italian-Arab Business Forum of the Joint Italian Arab Chamber of Commerce in Milan, at the presence of the representatives of the institutions and the business community of Italy and of Arab Countries. \u201cToday\u2019s Forum represents and important opportunity to reaffirm […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[3,399],"class_list":["post-57328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eventi","tag-diplomazia-economica","tag-vice-ministri-e-sottosegretari-precedenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}