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THE SIXTEEN MAJOR EENTS OF 2007
V – VARIOUS JOURNEYS WITH
DIETY AND DJEDJI AMONDJI
For his
2007 program of activities, Ambassador TIETI decided to
reach the highest level in order to obtain results.
According to him, the year 2007 should be the year of
RESULT. So it was necessary for him to be determined in
working on different pragmatic aspects and with the help
of people with a real will and desire to make things
move.
Considering the interest they showed every time he told
them about the perspectives for co-operation with Iran,
M. Felix DIETY and M. Pierre Amondji DJEDJI appeared as
persons who could make things move. So they stayed in
Iran on June 2007 at the great satisfaction of the Chief
of the Diplomatic mission in Iran.
A
Parliament member, a vocational institution founder, and
a prospective businessman, the Honourable Felix DIETY
traveled three times to Iran in the year 2007 only. The
first time was in January with Danyell Pascal LOUA,
polyvalent Captain of the navy and former officer of
SITRAM, who was willing to give armaments to Ivory
Coast.
After
being put in contact with ARVANDAN Shipbuilding Co.,
they went to ABADAN in South-Western Iran, in order to
visit the shipyard of this company.
The
second time was during the journey initiated and
organized for him by the Chief of the Ivorian diplomatic
mission in Iran just after his mission in Semnan (See
THE SIXTEEN MAJOR EVENTS, No2).
The
main steps of his stay were in the framework of the
program of strengthening of some relationships developed
by Ambassador TIETI. It took into account the positive
evolution of the situation in Cote d’Ivoire. It
justified this long, exhausting, but exciting 15 day
travel in five different provinces, which is more than
3000 Km. They went in many cities through SEMNAN
provinces (Sharoud, Demghan, Garmsar) MARKAZI (Arak),
WEST AZERBAIJAN (Tabriz), OROUMIEH (Oroumieh) Tehran
and its surroundings. So Ambassador TIETI and the
honorable DIETY were able to visit several factories and
meet many Iranian businessmen in search of partners
ready for real actions of co-operation.
Concerning Governor Amondji, it was noticed that he just
arrived in Iran (coming back from South Korea) with his
four collaborators of the Abidjan District during the
Conference called Metropolis, were great cities of the
world were represented, while the Honorable DIETY was on
his first visit.
This
visit was an opportunity to strengthen the Co-operation
between our two countries, on its corresponding areas
but it was also necessary for him to answer to
invitations addressed to him in 2004. This travel was an
opportunity for him to evaluate the development of the
autonomous districts (a new slaughterhouse, a coach
station etc.).
Therefore Ambassador TIETI had to make another visit to
a manufacturing plant for heavy machines, HEPCO,
located in Arak. Along with his guests, he also visited
a modern slaughterhouse (BEHIN MEAT & MILK Co.) located
in the outskirts of Tehran, just as the NOBAR-e-SABZ
factory which can preserve food products over a long
period. They also went to GOLFOAM, an industrial unit of
polystyrene manufacturing which is used for various
forms of packing and especially now for building. In
bricks made up only of terracotta.
The
concern of activities remaining a crucial one,
Ambassador TIETI obtained working sessions with funding
institutions of co-operation which is the Exportations
Guarantee Funds of Iranian (EGFI) and the Exports
Development Bank of Iranian (EDBI).
During
the discussion with the highest officials of these two
institutions of the Iranian Trade Ministry, Ambassador
TIETI, while calling on his two fellow countrymen to
witness, expected answers to his two concerns. Knowing
the impact of the Ouagadougou Agreement on the level of
the determined ‘‘country-risk’’ concerning Cote
d’Ivoire, and also obtaining new information on the
level of Iran financial liabilities available for the
co-operation with Ivory Coast.
At the
end of their exchanges with the acting General Manager
of EGFI, M. SEYED Ali, as well as the EDBI experts and
M. MAZAHERI, former general manager of EDBI, it was
reaffirmed:
- The level of country-risk for Cote d’Ivoire
had not dropped yet. It varied from "high" in
governmental area to "very high" in area under control
of the former rebellion. For sure, things have moved a
lot since then, as the Prime Minister, chief of the
former rebellion, has called on UN in the same way.
- The level of engagement in favor of Cote
d’Ivoire remained of 90 million Dollars made up of two
lines of 60 million Dollars and 30 million Dollars.
Duration and terms determining this subdivision. As this
buyer credit line allowed the Abidjan transport Company,
SOTRA, to obtain its firs 70 bus ‘‘made in Iran’’ from
Iran’s Khodro Diesel.
- For a better understanding of the economic
situation in Cote d’Ivoire and on the insistence of
Ambassador TIETI, responsible of EGFI and EDBI as well
as experts in charge of Cote d’Ivoire would come with Mr
TIETI in Cote d’Ivoire without referring to the data of
Europeans institutions which do the same thing.
So the visit in Cote d’Ivoire, in September, of three
experts of the Exports Development Bank, in the
framework of the second mission of economic and
commercial prospection of almost 50 Iranian economic
operators answered this concern.
Not
only this other visit was an opportunity to seize to
instigate, in the fields which relate to it, the
co-operation between our two countries, but the governor
was to honor with the invitations which had been already
addressed to him in 2004. This voyage in Iran offered
the occasion to him to see feasibility, with the means
and Iranian know-how, of the autonomous projects of the
district (new slaughter-house, coach station, etc).
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