(ECO) TURKISH BUSINESSPEOPLE MEET OFFICIALS FROM AFRICAN REGIONAL ECONOMIC GROUP.ISTANBUL, Jun 29, 2009 (TUR tur: see ibex. ) -- A confederation of Turkish businesspeople and industrialists have gathered with representatives from a regional African economic bloc to seek ways to improve trade and economic cooperation. A meeting was held in Istanbul on Monday between the Confederation of the Turkish Businessmen and Industrialists (TUSKON), and representatives from Common Market for Eastern Southern Africa (COMESA COMESA Common Market for Eastern & Southern Africa ). High level officials from COMESA members including Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan, Seychelles, Mauritius and Swaziland participated in the event which also hosted a series of meetings between development agencies of the individual COMESA members and Turkey. COMESA is a grouping of 19 member states which was established to collaborate in economic development through regional integration. It is estimated that COMESA?s total population is over 400 million with an annual import bill of close to 71 billion USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. , an export bill of about 96 billion USD and a GDP GDP (guanosine diphosphate): see guanine. of over 300 billion USD, representing a sizable trading market. (MB-CE) (THROUGH ASIA Asia (ā`zhə), the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. PULSE) |
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