The Arab Organisation for Industrialisation (AOI) is seeking to boost industrial and development partnerships with African countries, with a focus on meeting the Central African Republic’s (CAR) needs in defence, security and development projects.
This is part of Egypt’s efforts to promote African industrial integration.
AOI Chairman Major General Engineer Mohamed Abdel Fattah Abu Bakr held talks on Tuesday with Central African Republic Ambassador in Cairo Guy Rodrigue Gambi at the organisation’s headquarters.
Ways to enhance joint co-operation topped the talks agenda, as did making use of the AOI’s advanced industrial and technological capabilities to meet the CAR’s needs in defence and security industries, as well as development projects.
Abu Bakr stressed the AOI’s commitment to increasing co-operation and integration with fellow African countries, and exchanging expertise across various industrial sectors, in a move to support strategic partnerships and promote sustainable development.
The AOI is looking forward to taking part in implementing a number of development projects in the CAR, mainly in renewable energy, rural electrification, water treatment and purification, and defence industries, he noted.
He also highlighted the importance of training and qualifying local personnel through the AOI’s training academies and institutes, with a view to transferring expertise and building national capacities.
For his part, Ambassador Gambi reaffirmed his country’s keenness to strengthen partnership and co-operation with Egypt across various industrial and development sectors.
He highly appreciated visiting the AOI, which he described as one of the key pillars of Egyptian industry, and underscored the importance of co-ordinating efforts to achieve industrial integration and localise the latest manufacturing technologies in areas of mutual interest.
The ambassador also commended the AOI’s positive role in supporting and strengthening Egyptian-African partnerships across various fields, voicing his country’s aspiration for the organisation to participate in implementing a number of development projects in the Central African Republic.
Such co-operation will help strengthen bilateral relations and open up broader prospects for economic and industrial co-operation between the two countries, he said.
