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Iranian Economic
Prospecting Mission in Cote d’Ivoire
Between 20 and 50 Iranian
investors will visit Cote d’Ivoire from 4 to 11 September in
line with a large prospecting and commercial mission.
This mission is an initiative
of HEM Roch d’Assomption TIETI, ambassador of Cote d’Ivoire
to Iran and Honorable Felix Diety, a member of the Ivorian
Parliament who is also the founder and director of the
Institute of Technologies and Specialties (ITES) a
vocational institution. The latter who recently returned
from a fifteen-day prospecting trip in Iran will take care
of the entire cost of the operation, and even the flight
tickets, which is original.
This important economic
prospecting mission has a double objective: the first is to
attract the attention of Iranian investors towards the
important opportunities of Cote d’Ivoire, a country which is
regaining PEACE. The second objective is to help Ivorian
businessmen and businesswomen discover the Iranian
technology and savoir-faire and to establish direct business
contacts with them.
In addition to their own
resources, they will then have the opportunity to benefit
from the buyers’ line of credit of USD 90 millions
established by the Iranian authorities within the framework
of the cooperation with Cote d’Ivoire. This line of credit
has just helped SOTRA to purchase 70 brand new buses.
Due to his perfect knowledge of
the ground, for having visited numerous factories in 26 of
the 30 provinces of Iran, but also informed of the urgent
needs of Cote d’Ivoire in this post crisis phase, the
ambassador of Cote d’Ivoire to Iran for five years now, HEM
TIETI, has selected several companies in varied domains:
manufacturing vehicles for the transportation of goods and
persons, manufacturing of urban and inter-urban
transportation vehicles, construction of roads and bridges,
manufacturing of new construction materials, banks,
pharmaceutical and medical industries, realization of
agricultural projects, long term preservation of food crops,
especially fruits and vegetables which perish too quickly in
Cote d’Ivoire, industrial processing of foodstuffs,
agricultural machinery, building of dams, manufacturing of
tanks for cooking gas, seaborne transportation, electricity
material, etc.
The managers of institutions
such as the Exportations Guarantee Fund of Iran (EGFI) and
the Exportations Development Bank of Iran (EDBI) which
handle this line of credit of USD 90 millions, that is,
about CFA 45 billions as well as the directors of Parsian
and Tejarat Banks are expected in Abidjan, San Pedro, and
Yamoussoukro; the three towns selected by the organizers of
this mission which is a bid to unveil the production areas
of Cote d’Ivoire.
The organizers of this
important economic prospecting mission, - the second of the
kind initiated by Ambassador Roch d’Assomption TIETI – bear
in mind the objectives of the NEPAD. Therefore, willing to
propose a market larger than just Cote d’Ivoire, they have
decided to invite businessmen from Mali, Liberia, Cameroon,
etc at this important meeting in Abidjan. Also invited are
the African ambassadors accredited in Cote d’Ivoire.
Audiences are scheduled with
the highest Ivorian authorities as well as work sessions
with people in charge of Cote d’Ivoire’s development
programs. In order to help them establish concrete business
relations before requesting the support of finance
institutions, ‘‘business to business’’ or ‘‘one-on-one’’
meetings will be organized for them.
A special exhibition of
catalogs, CDs, and other samples, in addition to film loops
and continuous projection of advertisement of Iranian
companies will be organized in a customized room within
Hotel Ivoire in Abidjan. This is also a great innovation in
this economic prospecting mission; and it will help the
businessmen and businesswomen who attend these meetings to
be well informed of the savoir-faire and technical and
technological capacities, as well as the power of Iranian
companies.
Hotel Ivoire, which is the
partner of this mission, will host the ceremonies and the
Ivorian delegation.
To add to the opportunities of
‘‘business talks’’ and conviviality between the businessmen,
an Iranian gastronomic week is planned with specifically
Iranian meals. Naturally, the heart of these gastronomic
nights, which will take place in one of the restaurants of
the Hotel Ivoire, will be the tasting of the genuine and
globally known Iranian CAVIAR.
We must note that Iran is five
times larger than Cote d’Ivoire and has a population of
about 70 millions inhabitants, with 15 millions living in
the capital Tehran.
AS for Cote d’Ivoire, it has a
population of about 20 millions inhabitants, with 6 millions
living in the economic capital Abidjan. The first cocoa
producer in the world with 40% of the world production, Cote
d’Ivoire is one the most prominent West African countries.
The diversity of its agricultural resources, the richness
and the variety of its mineral resources, as well as the
existence of important natural gas and oil deposits make it
an essential country and one the best emerging markets. Cote
d’Ivoire has modern infrastructures including an
international airport, a real hub for the sub region and a
port ranked among the hundred first ports in the world and
the second on the entire West African coast.
The Africa Vision Future (www.africavf.net)
website, which aims at promoting Africa, is the privileged
media partner of this important mission to give it a
worldwide echo through the Internet. Indeed, the website
provides English, French, Persian, and Arabian versions of
all the information posted.
The following cabinets,
Compultense International of M. Achille YAYHE and AGCC of
Auguste GADEAU, are in charge of organizing this major event
and of attracting the interest of Ivorian investors from all
economic sectors in these forthcoming business meetings.
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