Damascus-Sana
The sixty-first session of the Damascus International Fair resulted in reaching hundreds of contracts, agreements and understandings between participating companies and foreign businessmen, Arabs and Syrians to market Syrian products externally and internally and to establish partnerships for projects in the productive, service, energy and reconstruction sectors.
Talal Qala'i, executive director of the private sector in Damascus, told SANA today that hundreds of businessmen visited the exhibition and held talks or agreements or signed contracts with private sector companies, which usually prefer not to disclose either their value or what makes them. Estimating its true value is unrealistic.
He pointed out that the number of contracts and their value will be clear when the companies participating in the Damascus International Fair submitted to the Commission for the Development and Support of Local Production and Exports contracts at the end of the period specified requests for support.
Qala'i cited the support provided by the government to the participants of the exhibition from the private sector, first by supporting the reserved areas and secondly by the recently announced support through the Local Production Support and Export Development Authority for export contracts signed at the exhibition or which will be extended for an additional month after the companies participating in the exhibition. Supporting their presence in foreign markets, increasing the export process, stimulating increased production, providing fronts of work and securing additional job opportunities.
Ahmed Souliman