Saudi Delegation Visits Netherlands to Boost Economic, Commercial Partnership

  • Date: 12-May-2022
  • Source: Asharq AL-awsat
  • Sector:Economy
  • Country:Saudi Arabia
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Saudi Delegation Visits Netherlands to Boost Economic, Commercial Partnership

The Saudi government says it wants to boost commercial and economic partnership in priority areas with the Netherlands.

A Saudi delegation, headed by Vice Minister of Commerce and CEO of the National Competitiveness Center (NCC) Iman al-Mutairi, arrived in the Netherlands to hold talks and enhance commercial and economic partnership.

The Saudi delegation includes figures from the energy, investment, environment, water, and agriculture ministries, in addition to officials from the Saudi Ports Authority, General Authority for Foreign Trade, Technical and Vocational Training Corporation, the National Competitiveness Center, Jeddah Islamic Port, and Federation of Saudi Chambers, in addition to representatives of top national companies, such as Saudi Aramco, SABIC, Saudi Investment Recycling Company (SIRC).

The delegates are scheduled to hold several meetings with government institutions and the business sector in the Netherlands.

Dutch Vice Minister for Foreign Economic Relations Hanneke Schuiling received the Saudi delegation in The Hague in the presence of Saudi Ambassador Ziad al-Atiyah. The meeting discussed means to enhance the economic partnership between the two countries in light of the Vision 2030.

On the first day, the delegation visited the Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI), the University of Amsterdam, and the village of the business incubator.

The delegates viewed the latest developments and