Arab businesswomen set structures of their council

Businesswomen from 16 Arab states, including , who are holding their 4th congress here started setting the structures of the council of Arab business-women to be based in Cairo.

The council chairmanship was thus entrusted to Kuwaiti Hissat Saad Allah Assabah, while Tunisian laila Khyat and Syrian Nezha Llyane were named vice-chairwomen.

Morocco was elected member of the executive committee.

Besides finalizing the structures of the Arab businesswomen council, the Beirut meeting is discussing means of reactivating Arab economies, the promotion of Arab markets and inter-Arab economic and commercial cooperation.

The congress is sponsored by the forum of Lebanese business-women in cooperation with the U.N economic and social commission for Western Asia.

Besides the host country Lebanon and Morocco, which hosted the previous congress, the Beirut meeting is attended by delegates from Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Mauritania, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.