Monday, May 07, 2012
Kabul (BNA) President Karzai met with a number of nationwide industrialists union members.
At the meeting attended by ministers of commerce and industries, energy and water, Sherbaz Kameenzada chairman of the Afghanistan industrialists union, Muhsen Amiri member of the union, Hamidullah Khadem, wife of the chairman of Herat union and Abdul Jabar Safi, deputy chairman of the union and some other industrialists talked about the activities of the union.
Kameenzada told the audience that around 2,000 plants with 96,000 labor are organized within his led union. He added that plants like marble producing, carpets, plastic pipes, printing industry, fruit juices, plastic wares, PVC doors and window making plants, cartoon making, roads building, food processing, sweet producers, biscuits, non alcoholic drinks, salts, lime stone, furniture and other producers are members of this union which are meeting a part of the people’s needs.
Sayed Muhsen Amiri said in the near future Afghanistan Industrial Conference will be organized to debate problems faced by the producers in Kabul and around 400 companies will display their products.
Hamidullah Khadim chairman and Abdul Jabar Safi deputy chairman of the union while sharing the problems of the union members asked government support from the country’s industrialists, including allocation of industrial parks and provision of permanent electricity.
They said that unless domestic industrialists are supported and encouraged important cannot be reduced. They also proposed that the union representatives be allowed at the CM economic committee and AISA.
Present Karzai told the union members that Afghanistan’s domestic products must be supported and encouraged.
He asked them to prepare their problems on written basis and deliver to the minister of commerce and industries so that solution is sought for their problems.
At the end of the meeting the chairman of the union presented a volume of Holy Kyran and a piece of carpet bearing the insignia of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan as gift to President Karzai.
