DOHA: Senior business leaders representing over 100 Polish and Qatari companies participated at an event on ‘Qatari-Polish Business Seminar’ here yesterday to explore business opportunities.
The one-day seminar was organised by the elite Qatari Businessmen’s Association (QBA) in cooperation with the Polish Embassy in Doha.
Present were distinguished guests, including the visiting Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, KatarzynaKacperczyk and his accompanying business delegation from 60 Polish companies. Krzysztof Suprowicz, Polish Ambassador to Qatar, was also present at the event.
Both sides exchanged ideas on bilateral cooperation and establishing potential partnership. The event shed light on business opportunities in various promising sectors of Qatari and Polish economies.
From the Qatari side, Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim Al Thani, Chairman of QBA attended the event along with Sherida Al Kaabi, QBA Board member, QBA Members Nasser Suliman Al Haider and Maqbool Khalfan, as well as more than 50 companies from the Qatari business community.
In his welcome speech Al Kaabi highlighted the importance of these visits that aim at attracting more investments to both countries and described it as a positive step that will contribute to improve the economic relations and open up new areas for investors from both sides to study these opportunities and promote trade cooperation.
Sherida also added that, the diversity of investment opportunities that is offered by the Qatari economy and the large number of projects that the State shall endeavor to implement, is a great opportunity for the Polish investors to establish new and constructive partnerships.
He added: “Such activities would open prospects for cooperation between our two countries in the areas of trade and investment, especially that Qatar is witnessing extensive development by hundreds of large-scale projects which would definitely encourage Polish businessmen and companies to work within the Qatari market.” The Polish envoy to Qatar noted that his government shows great interest to its relations with Qatar and seek to increase the volume of trade exchange between the two countries, adding that bilateral relations may already have evolved dramatically over the past few years in the hope that this cooperation will continue to flourish to include various fields.
During the seminar, Maciej Falkowski, Deputy Director, Department of Economic Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Poland) spoke about the action plan adopted by his government for the development of the Polish economy to create new economic development model that is based on five strong pillars namely: reindustrialisation, development of innovative companies, capital for development, foreign expansion in terms of penetrating new markets especially in Asia and Africa, and finally social and regional development. Participating Polish companies represented a wide range of sectors, including agricultural, medical, IT, furniture and wood, transportation and construction industries.
Qatar and Poland have signed an agreement where Qatar shall supply Poland with liquefied natural gas (LNG) annually for 20 years, as well as the launch of Qatar Airways’ direct line from Doha to Warsaw with a daily flight, in addition to All that prove both countries endeavor to strengthen cooperation and enhance bilateral trade.
Also the success of the polish industry such as shipbuilding, automobiles, machinery, chemical refining, petroleum, glass and textiles would create more opportunities for partnership especially with Qatar’s tendency to invest in the industrial sector within its development plan in order to diversify sources of income.The Peninsula
