Government discusses activating agreements signed in political, economic fields
A ministerial meeting was held Sunday under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Atef Ebeid to discuss activating agreements signed between Egypt and other countries and agreements signed with international governmental and non-governmental organizations.
The aim is to benefit from activating aspects of relations which bind Egypt with the outside world in the various political and economic fields, find employment for Egyptian manpower and benefit from the experience of Egyptian scientists abroad, in addition to activating agreements of cooperation in the economic fields such as the free zones, agreements of trade exchange and agreements between Egypt and Arab and foreign organizations and funds, and agreements concluded between Egyptian unions and similar organizations in the outside world, chambers of commerce and businessmen associations.
Minister of Information Safwat Al- Sherif said that agreements were reviewed in the light of the working papers presented by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. In the light of this, the following decisions were taken:
* Completing feasibility studies of projects which have been financed from Arab funds, economic organizations and the African and Islamic banks in order to use available funds to fix projects and their priorities.
*Drafting the best formula on which agreement was reached as regards European partnership and to define the optimum approach to be adopted by Egypt to maximize positive aspects and minimize negative aspects in the benefit of national economy and to complete questions and explanations regarding the program to modernize industry which was ratified by the People's Assembly.
*Complete feasibility studies related to projects to benefit from grants and easy-term loans or the rest of loans with each of Spain, the Netherlands, China and Japan. They are all grants and loans or surplus easy-term and long-term loans.
*Benefit from Egyptian high-level minds, abilities and experience abroad in the fields of modernization and development in the various fields.
*The Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Manpower, shall draw up studies on Egyptian manpower abroad and elements of strength, or weakness, in some of them, define the geography of markets, the nature of professions and crafts required in those markets and urgent proposals for training and rehabilitation to deal with gaps and negative aspects.
*The Ministry of International Cooperation shall draw up a national program of national cooperation. This will be done through a working group under the Minister of Planning and International Cooperation and the membership of senior officials representing the ministry of Foreign Affairs and all ministries which have cultural, information, trade, or manpower offices abroad.
The group may benefit from experience and choose a consultant firm to lay down the foundations of a more effective national program for international cooperation which is suitable to invest the positive aspects of Egypt's international relations, at the level of the political leadership, and to invest diplomatic efforts and make maximum use of agreements concluded by Egypt at all levels by building a date base on all agreements and programs of cooperation and define stages which have been carried out in each program.
*Drawing up a map to benefit from agreements through a system to manage international cooperation in a manner which ensures follow up, evaluation and future planning to lay down a plan of procedures and programs of negotiating and to activate and evaluate agreements of free trade and planning to benefit from non-governmental organizations.
Drawing up a program to benefit from Egyptians abroad and advanced countries in this regard.