A high-level Moroccan delegation will participate in the US-Africa business summit, due in Philadelphia on October 30.
According to Morocco’s official news agency (MAP), the Moroccan delegation will be led by Ahmed Lahlimi, minister of social economy, small and medium enterprises and handicrafts.
Lahlimi will address the first plenary session of the three-day summit, which will be centered on the development of small and medium-scale firms in Africa, MAP said.
The third biennial US-Africa Business Summit of the Corporate Council on Africa is billing itself as the premiere gathering of US and African private sector and political leaders in the United States in 2001.
The summit, which had been postponed to the present date after the September terrorist attacks on the US, will break new ground by recruiting more than 200 African businesses to meet potential US business partners.
According to the Corporate Council on Africa, the event's main goal is to facilitate export/import trading, identify agents, representatives and distributors, explore joint venture partnerships and strategic alliances, and to promote foreign direct investment in Africa – Albawaba.com
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