TUNIS - A group of Tunisian businessmen based in Qatar created, early June, a business council meant to be, according to a communiqué, a space of exchange on means to back-up Tunisia's economy.
The Council will strive, according to the same communiqué, to boost Qatari direct investments in Tunisia, promote trade exchange between the two countries and encourage Tunisian young skills' employment, mainly university graduates among them.
Recently set up, the Council is to contribute to stepping up implementation pace of agreements signed in December 2010, between Tunisia and Qatar as part of Tunisian-Qatari High Joint Commission.
According to Council chairman Noureddine Zekri, this initiative had a favourable feedback from Qatari business circles.
In a telephone interview with TAP news agency, Mr. Zekri voiced the Qatari businessmen's will to create joint ventures in Tunisia, reminding that the Council will endeavour, in association with Tunisian Trade, Industry and Handicrafts Union and Qatari official institutions, to achieve the hoped-for objectives, he added.
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