Jordan Times
Thursday, December 9, 2004
Awadallah
highlights economic achievements, challenges to US businessmen
Planning and International Cooperation Minister Bassem Awadallah met on
Wednesday with businessmen to mobilise support for the free trade zone with the
US by 2013. During the meeting attended by the Kingdom's Ambassador to the US
Karim Qawar, Awadallah reviewed the Kingdom's economic achievements made
possible under the current reform process.
He pinpointed the educational and IT sectors, the elimination of poverty and
unemployment problems as priorities on the Kingdom's agenda besides the
development of human resources, and the economic transformation projects. He
underlined training and education to meet the Kingdom's future challenges.