Hariri for Encouraging Private Sector Initiatives as Part of Euro-Med Partnership
Prime Minister Saad Hariri urged European and southern Mediterranean countries on Friday to cooperate in facilitating the initiatives of the private sector for a stronger Euro-Med partnership.
"The private sector has become the vital impetus for any trade and economic integration … That”s why it is our duty as Mediterranean and European governments to provide the legal and institutional framework to facilitate the initiatives of the private sector in each other”s countries," Hariri told the General-Assembly of the Association of Mediterranean Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
The prime minister told the assembly at al-Kassar building in Jnah that the private sector could play an important role in consolidating the partnership between the European Union and southern Mediterranean countries.
Hariri said Lebanon welcomes the new initiative for the Mediterranean Union launched in 2008 and will be a real partner and make efforts for the success of the initiative.
The PM also said Lebanon hasn”t been able to implement an economic, social and developmental program that meets the demands of the Lebanese as a result of the difficult circumstances that the country went through.
However, he was confident that Lebanon has "a new opportunity to build its national economy …, improve the living conditions of the citizen and guarantee all of his economic and social rights."