(ECO) A FREE TRADE AGREEMENT WITH JORDAN TO BE SIGNED BY END OF 2009, CAGLAYAN.ISTANBUL, Nov 8, 2009 (TUR tur: see ibex. ) -- Turkish State Minister Zafer Caglayan said Saturday he expects a Free Trade Agreement to be signed with Jordan by the end of 2009. Caglayan's comments came at the meeting of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC COMCEC Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation ) of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC "Oh, I see." See digispeak. (chat) OIC - oh, I see. ) in Istanbul. "I met with the Jordanian Minister of Industry and Trade Amir al-Hadidi on Saturday. We discussed the possibility of a Free Trade Agreement. A technical delegation from the Turkish Undersecretariat of Foreign Trade will visit Jordan between December 1 and 3 to conclude technical works on such an agreement," Caglayan said. "We expect a Free Trade Agreement to be signed with Jordan by the end of the current year based on directives from the respective prime ministers," Caglayan also said. (SOL-E) (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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