Lubna Al Qasimi, Australian official discuss developments of GCC-Australian free trade talks

posted on 20/11/2007: 56 views

Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid Al Qasimi, UAE Minister of Economy discussed in Abu Dhabi yesterday with David Spencer, Australian Chief Negotiator of the Free Trade Agreement, developments on the talks between Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and Australia on the free trade agreement. The two officials discussed issues, which will be tackled during the next round of talks between the GCC and Australia, on Tuesday in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh.

Lubna stressed the need to reach free trade agreement between the GCC and Australia to promote the economic and commercial ties between the GCC and Australia in general, and UAE and Australia in particular.

Earlier, UAE held many rounds of talks on the free trade with Australia but the GCC leaders recommended that the free trade talks should be held between the GCC bloc with other world countries. This shifted the talks between the two countries to the GCC- Australia talks. The meeting was attended by Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Saleh, undersecretary of the Economy for economic sector and Jeremy Bruer, ambassador of Australia to UAE. (Emirates News Agency, WAM)

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