Appel à la création de zones de libre-échange et à l’établissement des zones industrielles intelligentes

Call for the creation of free trade zones and the establishment of smart industrial zones

Algeria-Tunisia-Libya

The Algerian Economic Renewal Council (CREA), the Tunisian Union of Industry, Commerce and Handicrafts (UTICA) and the General Union of Libyan Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture (GUCC) called, the day before yesterday Monday, in Algiers, to accelerate the creation of free trade zones and to establish intelligent industrial zones in common border areas. This was on the occasion of a consultation meeting which brought together the president of CREA, Kamel Moula, that of UTICA, Samir Majoul, and the president of GUCC, Mohammed Raied, at the end of which, indicated a joint press release from these three employers’ organizations, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the three parties to record their desire to concretely participate in the common economic development of the three countries.
The three employers’ organizations, the same source said, have agreed to create a partnership council, which is intended to be a mechanism capable of contributing to the effort of economic complementarity between the three countries, they indicated in a joint press release.
“This council is in line with the political will expressed during the summit consultation meeting which brought together last April the President of the Republic Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, the Tunisian President, Kais Saied, and the President of the Presidential Council of the Libyan State, Mohammed El Menfi, who highlighted their determination to strengthen security, stability and to strengthen economic complementarity in the three countries and the entire region,” the same source said.
This mechanism, we read through the joint press release of these three employers’ organizations, will make it possible to examine the establishment of high added value partnerships between the operators of the three countries, private and public, and to include them in global value chains, the joint press release also indicates, stressing the importance of strengthening the bases of global development directly benefiting the people of the three countries.
Agreeing to organize business and partnership meetings periodically bringing together the various economic actors from the public and private sectors, alternately in the three countries, and to work to ensure greater opening of the Algerian, Tunisian and Libyan markets, Crea, Utica and Gucc highlighted their commitment to strengthening the role of the private sector in joint efforts aimed at economic and commercial development for the three countries, so as to enable them to meet current challenges and adapt to global economic changes. And highlighted the importance of the summit that brought together the Presidents of the three countries last April in Tunis in realizing the aspirations of the Algerian, Tunisian and Libyan peoples for stability, progress and development.
At the end of their 1st Consultative Meeting held at the end of April in Tunis, the leaders of Algeria, Tunisia and Libya stressed the need to unify positions and intensify consultation and coordination to strengthen the factors of security, stability and development in the region and increase its resilience in the face of regional changes and successive international crises.
“The leaders of the three brotherly countries, namely Presidents Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Kaïs Saïed and Mohamed Younes El-Menfi, meeting at the Carthage Palace, agreed to organize this meeting periodically, alternating between the three countries in order to raise the privileged bilateral relations that bind each country to the other to a new qualitative stage focused, beyond the bilateral framework, on collective reflection and action,” reads the final communiqué of this Consultative Meeting.
The leaders of the three countries also reaffirmed their common conviction about the need to unify positions and intensify consultation and coordination to strengthen the factors of security, stability and development throughout the region and increase its resilience in the face of regional changes and successive major international crises whose repercussions, noted the same source, cannot be faced by any country individually, in addition to the urgent need for the three countries to have a unified audible voice and an influential and effective presence in the various regional and international spaces of belonging.
Rabah Mokhtari