Murad, Demetriades seek better Jordanian-Cypriot relations

AMMAN — Amman Chamber of Commerce (ACC) President Issa Murad agreed with President of the Paphos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) Andreas Demetriades to draw a joint action plan to enhance Jordanian-Cypriot commercial and investment relations. 

The envisioned plan includes receiving a delegation from PCCI and Paphos Municipality to consider benefiting from some European grant projects aimed at developing economic and development programmes between the two countries.

The plan also includes arranging a visit by a Jordanian agricultural sector delegation to Paphos to discuss ways of enhancing agricultural cooperation and organising field visits to provide Cyprus with Jordanian agricultural products out of their season in Cyprus. 

The agreement will also consider establishing a charter line between Amman and Paphos to boost tourist cooperation, especially that the Royal Jordanian has inaugurated a direct route to the Chinese city of Guangzhou, where Chinese tourists prefer to visit Cyprus through Jordan.

Murad highlighted the importance of cooperation in promoting Jordanian products and services in Cyprus to boost the commercial exchange volume, adding that the Kingdom has a lot of products of high quality and good competitiveness rates, and accord with international technical standards.

He also said that the political and security stability in the Kingdom enhances investors' confidence in the Jordanian business environment which provides a lot of incentives for businesspeople and investors.

Jordan has several products and services that can cover a big proportion of the Cypriot market needs such as medicines, phosphate, potash and Dead Sea products, the ACI president added.

Cypriot investments in the Kingdom are mainly based in the ICT, constructions, services, consultation, electricity and electronics sectors.