Tripartite cooperation to attract investments to Tripoli

The northern capital is polarizing private and public sectors, civil and foreign organisations, and mobilizing efforts, in an attempt to boost the economy, through providing a number of facilities and incentives in order to attract investments. On the subject, Raya Al-Hassan, president of the General Authority Board of the Special Economic Zone for Tripoli, represent a zone “free of all customary public sector regulations”, that will play an important role in attracting investments in Lebanon and outside Lebanon and particularly in the Diaspora”, she told a delegation of the campaign ‘no matter what happens’) law shu ma sar).

In the same spirit, Tawfic Dabbusi, president of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture in Tripoli and the North, stressed, during a meeting with members of the Civil Movement Board-the North, the cooperation between the two sides across all areas. He pressed the need to adopt the principles of planning and training from a socio-economic perspective.

For his part, the president of the Civil Movement, Fadi Obeid, underscored the common interests between the Chamber and the organization, adding that both parties are planning to work together on environmentally-friendly projects, particularly on alternative energy projects, such as tapping solar energy to illuminate the streets in the cities of Al-Fay7a2.

Meanwhile, on the sidelines of a tour by UNIDO to Harb Center for Artisan Industries in the northern city, the general superintendent of Al Azm Association, Abdel Ilah Mikati, encouraged the introduction of modern and state of the art designs to the products, underscoring the role of training and empowerment of the local youth on the use of hi-tech equipment, which he pointed will increase the opportunities of their employment. In a related vein, al Azm association launched in Tripoli and al Mina district, a campaign entitled, ‘the city resembles a rose’ .The activity covered street cleaning and restoration, planting trees in the parks and renovation of heritage mosques and old internal markets. (Al Mustaqbal, Al Diyar, August 20, 23, 24, 2016)