Towards an Arab industrial strategy

The Arab Organization for Industrial and Mining Development (OADIM) elaborated a strategy to foster production capacities and competitiveness of the member states' industrial products, OADIM director general, Talaat Ben Dafer, said Thursday.

The strategy, elaborated in coordination between Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Syria, will be submitted in December to the Secretariat General of the Arab League and the relevant financial departments and institutions, before being adopted in the Arab Summit to be held in Bahrain in March 2003, Ben Dafer said in Rabat.

The OADIM, which celebrates this year its 22nd anniversary under the sign "Towards the Consolidation of Arab Products' Competitiveness," not only backs member countries, Ben Dafer said, but also African countries to foster commercial exchanges.