Türkiye and Zimbabwe have agreed to additional improve cooperation and bilateral relations in all areas, the Turkish international minister mentioned on Wednesday.
In a joint press convention together with his Zimbabwean counterpart Frederick Shava, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, who’s the primary Turkish international minister to go to the southern African nation, mentioned: “We reviewed all aspects of our relations today, how to enhance our economic relations.”
He mentioned that the present bilateral commerce of $35 million will not be sufficient, including that it must be elevated as one of many precedence areas of bilateral ties.
“We need to establish the Joint Economic Commission … and we need to conclude and sign agreements, MoUs that we have been negotiating to strengthen the legal basis of our relations,” Çavuşoğlu added.
The Turkish minister additionally assured the willingness of Turkish firms to spend money on Zimbabwe as he famous that two international ministers agreed “to work closely to further our relations in many areas,” together with agriculture, tourism, schooling and well being.
Çavuşoğlu mentioned that the non-public sectors within the two nations have to be inspired for additional cooperation each in Türkiye and right here in Zimbabwe.
For his half, Zimbabwe’s Shava described Çavuşoğlu’s go to as an “era for economic diplomacy.”
“We are hoping to deepen cooperation between the Republic of Turkey and Zimbabwe,” he mentioned.
