Cairo symposium for Egypt and COMESA on coming Monday

The symposium on "Egypt and COMESA: new horizons for trade and investment" will begin in Cairo, on Monday and last for three days, inaugurated by Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa.

In the symposium, in which a number of Egyptian and African ministers are going to take part as well as the secretary general of the COMESA, an economic assembly for east and south African countries, J.E.O. Mwencha, will speak.

Meanwhile official sources in the Egyptian Ministry of Trade confirmed that Cairo has presented the establishment of two companies: one for merchandising Egyptian products in COMESA countries which is the "South - South Company," which bought lands in Uganda, Kenya, and Djibouti as free trade zones in which it can present Egyptian products that will enter the markets of COMESA countries.

The other company is the African - Arab Company for Marketing and Economic Studies, in which the Egyptian trade and merchandising commissions will tour countries in southern and eastern Africa to discover the opportunities there.