{"id":26829,"date":"2023-05-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/murad-stresses-importance-of-jordans-access-to-comesa-agreement\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T13:31:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T13:31:59","slug":"murad-stresses-importance-of-jordans-access-to-comesa-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/murad-stresses-importance-of-jordans-access-to-comesa-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Murad stresses importance of Jordan&#8217;s access to COMESA agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Chairman of the Senate&#8217;s Jordanian-French Friendship Committee, Issa Haidar Murad, noted importance of Jordan&#8217;s entry into the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), whose member countries are achieving &#8220;high&#8221; economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>During his participation in session on &#8220;Economic and Commercial Relations between Jordan and Middle East and Francophone Countries,&#8221; Murad said Jordan today needs to launch new economic and trade partnerships to help overcome its hardships.<\/p>\n<p>Murad added that African countries that are members of COMESA agreement are achieving &#8220;remarkable&#8221; economic growth rates, which requires Jordan to seize priviliges provided to beneficiary nations, especially since they are a large consumer market.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed to importance of the agreements that open new business horizons, enhance trade exchange and increase exports.<\/p>\n<p>Lauding &#8220;distinguished&#8221; Jordanian-French relations, especially in the economic area, he added that the Senate&#8217;s ad hoc committees are &#8220;keen&#8221; to develop the Kingdom&#8217;s economic relations with various countries and build bridges of cooperation to serve the national economy.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan&#8217;s exports to European countries increased &#8220;significantly&#8221; during the last period, he said, describing this growth as a &#8220;good indicator,&#8221; which reflects that the Kingdom&#8217;s exports returned to their pre-Covid-19 levels.<\/p>\n<p>Murad also noted conferences are &#8220;key&#8221; platforms to exchange information and highlight&#8217;s Jordan&#8217;s available opportunities and bring together businesspeople to establish joint projects.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan, he said, launched &#8220;strong and important&#8221; industries in the pharmaceutical sectors that have investments outside the Kingdom, especially Algeria, in addition to the foodstuff, plastic, electronic and medical industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman of the Senate&#8217;s Jordanian-French Friendship Committee, Issa Haidar Murad, noted importance of Jordan&#8217;s entry into the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), whose member countries are achieving &#8220;high&#8221; economic growth. During his participation in session on &#8220;Economic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2023-en","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}