Omani-Lebanese Business Forum to open today
MUSCAT -- His Highness Sayyid Haitham bin Tareq al Said, Minister of Heritage and Culture, will preside at the opening of the Omani-Lebanese Business Forum at Shangri La's Barr Al Jissah Resort and Spa today. Also due to attend as guest of honour is Saad Rafic al Hariri, President of Future Parliamentary bloc in the Lebanese Parliament. The two-day forum has been organised by Beirut-based Confex International in association with Oman's Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Omani Centre for Investment Promotion and Export Development (OCIPED), Banque du Liban, Union of Arab Banks, the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture, Beirut and Mount Lebanon, and the Association of Lebanese Industrialists.
The Omani-Lebanese Business Forum has been set up to provide a conducive framework and platform for both Omani and Lebanese businessmen to meet and discuss investment opportunities in the various economic sectors, with focus on tourism, trade, industry, transport, banking, finance, insurance, information technology and other areas. It also aims to encouraging networking among businesspersons of both countries thereby contributing to economic and investment co-operation at the private sector level. Around 300 prominent businessmen and personalities, including leaders in the fields of finance, investment, tourism, trade, industry and transportation, are due to take part in the deliberations.
Various papers and presentations will look at opportunities for enhancing bilateral trade by highlighting the primary importance of mutual investments and cooperation in the various economic sectors. Underlining the importance accorded to this forum the first such major bilateral forum involving Oman and Lebanon a number of leading Arab and international TV and media networks will be on hand to cover the discussions.
Experts view this event as significant to the cause to enhancing Arab economic co-operation. Over the course of the two-day forum, a series of roundtables and panel sessions will be held featuring keynote speeches by high profile speakers and panelists from Oman, Lebanon and other Arab countries.
The presentations will address the following topics: Banking Legislation; Mutual Investment; Developing Cooperation in Trade and Industrial Sectors; Omani-Lebanese Co-operation and the Role of Central Banks; Investment Opportunities and Success Stories; Role of Omani and Lebanese Banks in Fostering Development; and the Role of Ports and Arab Free Zones in the Development of Inter-Arab Exchanges.
By Staff Reporter
© Oman Daily Observer 2006
