Al-Watan: Arab- international figures in Jeddah's economic forum

Several senior world figures, including the Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the former American president Bill Clinton, and the former prime minister of Malaysia, Mahateir Muhammad, will take part in "Jeddah's economic Forum" which will be held on January 17, 18 and 19.

The Saudi daily al-Watan said that among the participants in the forum are the Queen of Jordan Rania, the Swedish crown princess Victoria Ingrid, the Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri, and the commander of the Jordanian air force Faisal Bin al-Hussein, as well as several ministers and businessmen from Saudi Arabia and other countries.

The paper quoted the chairman of Jeddah council for marketing, and chairman of the forum, Amro al-Dabbagh, saying that four ministers from various countries are taking part to talks about the successful experiences of their governments in certain fields. They are the minister of finance in Pakistan, Shawkat Aziz, the Lebanese finance minister, Fouad Sinyoura, Jordan minister of planning Bassem Awadallah, and Kazakhistan's foreign minister, as well as the minister of international economic affairs and markets in Sweden and the director general of the World Trade Organization.