Tunisia to host major Mediterranean business event, MED-ALLIA 2008 seeks to boost North -South partnerships

Tunis, March 27, 2008 (TunisiaOnline)--Considered as one of the major business events for small and medium enterprises both in Tunisia and around the Mediterranean , the second Mediterranean forum of enterprises development (MED-ALLIA) is to be held in Tunis , from March 31 to April 2, 2008 .

The event, which is jointly organized by the Tunis economic mission, the Tunisian-French Chamber of Trade and Industry and “UBIFRANCE”, MED-ALLIA 2008, aims mainly at establishing partnerships between small and medium enterprises from both shores of the Mediterranean .

More than 840 participants are expected to take part in MED-ALLIA 2008, including 177 French, 162 Tunisian, 34 Algerian, 19 Moroccan, 18 Mauritanian, 9 Libyan and 1 Jordanian enterprises.

The key sectors which are due to be represented in this event are food industries, electrical and electronic industries, ICT's, mechanical industries and services.

During a press conference held in Tunis on Wednesday, Mr Serge De Gallaix, France's ambassador to Tunis, said that some 4,500 business events are to be organised as part of the Forum, adding that some 40 back-offices, "experts villages" made up of specialists, including consultants and representatives from banks, are to be set up on the sidelines of the Forum, to provide necessary advice and support to participants.

Mr De Gallaix, dubbed this second edition "an extremely pragmatic exercise," as it aims to help all Mediterranean countries operate on a common ground. He also said that Mediterranean small and medium enterprises are called upon to exert further efforts and work as part of a network to guarantee a better quality of production by means of partnership in order to meet the increasingly higher international labor standards and pave the way for the building of an effective Mediterranean Union.

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