AMMAN —
Minister of Investment Kholoud Saqqaf called for increasing Saudi investments in Jordan, especially
since the Kingdom has numerous diversified investment opportunities across
different economic sectors, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
اضافة اعلان
While hosting the Saudi Shura Council’s
Saudi-Jordanian Parliamentary Brotherhood Committee on Thursday, Saqqaf said Saudi
investments in the Kingdom play a "major role” in Jordan's economic
development and are among the key investments contributing to Jordan's
development process, providing job opportunities for Jordanian youth.
During the meeting, the delegation was
briefed on key targeted investment sectors in Jordan, primarily high-value
industries,
information and communication technologies (ICT), healthcare,
tourism, water, energy, mining, agriculture, education, and logistics, in
addition to vital partnership projects between the public and private sectors.
The minister noted the government's
keenness to stimulate flow of local, Arab, and foreign investments. She
highlighted Jordan’s efforts to attract additional Saudi investments in the
near future in order to take advantage of promising development opportunities
in various sectors and expand existing projects in Jordan.
Saudi investment interestFor his part, Head of the Saudi-Jordanian
Parliamentary Brotherhood Committee Ibrahim Qannas commended Jordan for the
steps it has taken to improve the
investment environment, which will reflect
positively on attracting more investments.
Qannas said Saudi Arabia views Jordan as an
important investment destination in the region, given the two countries' close
relations and Jordan's competitive privileges in the business environment.
He also noted Saudi Arabia's interest in
increasing the volume of its investments in Jordan in multiple sectors.
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