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AmCham President at Joint Event organized by SME Agency and the Local Mission of the USAID.
On February 18, 2020, a partnership event to support business and professional associations in Azerbaijan was held in Baku, jointly organized by Azerbaijan’s Agency for the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME Agency) and the local mission of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The goal of the initiative is to develop partnership on joint tasks between the public, private sectors and civil society, as well as to focus on organizing business partnership, as well as on the activities of business associations in this direction.
The event was attended by representatives of government agencies, international organizations, business associations and civil society institutions. President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Azerbaijan (AmCham Azerbaijan) Mr. Nuran Kerimov also delievered a speech in opening session of the event.
Mr. Kerimov expressed his gratitude to USAID and the SME Agency for organization of the conference and stated that AmCham Azerbaijan is always ready to support such important initiatives. He stressed that, the initiative will encourage the creation of a consortium among business entities, public unions, business associations and NGOs which also will lead to development of public-private dialogue too.
He said that AmCham is the oldest and the biggest associations represented in Azerbaijan with nearly 300 members. He also informed that Azerbaijani government accepts big number of proposals from AmCham’s White Paper document which is the biggest policy paper of the Chamber publish in every two years. “If young businessmen want to create any associations, we invite them to cooperate. We can share our experience and we’re not competing here, but serving the same purpose,” Mr. Kerimov noted.
AmCham President also emphasized that the Chamber is closely cooperating with other business associations operating in the country and looking forward to new and fruitful cooperation opportunities.
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