Turkiye attaches “great importance” to the 21-member Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Turkish Ambassador, Huseyin Barbaros Dicle, said on Monday, Anadolu Agency reports. “Trade between Turkiye and COMESA currently exceeds $15 billion, which shows that relations between Turkiye and the 21 COMESA members states continues to improve,” Dicle told Anadolu after presenting his letter of credentials to Chileshe Kapwepwe, the bloc’s Secretary-General, in Lusaka, Zambia’s capital. Dicle, who is also Turkiye’s ambassador to Zambia and Malawi, said he and Kapwepwe discussed avenues for more trade and cooperation. Two years ago, Kapwepwe attended the Turkiye-Africa business forum and Turkiye also invited her to attend the Antalya Diplomacy Forum this April, held in the Turkish coastal city of the […]
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