Lebanese Republic 
Minister of Economy and Trade holds series of meetings with Ministers, Public Officials and entrepreneurship in Abu Dhabi on the margins of the Annual Investment Meeting Forum (AIM)
in order to explore new trade and investment opportunities that may constitute the Lebanon of tomorrow.
On May 10th: Minister Salam met with his counterpart His Excellency Dr. Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, the United Arab Emirates' Minister of State for Foreign Trade; His Excellency Rashid Abdul Karim Al Balooshi, the Acting Undersecretary of Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (ADDED) and the Head of Iraq's National Investment Commission, Haider Mohammad Makkiya to discuss the possibilities of strengthening bilateral trade and investment relations with the two sister countries.
To this end, Minister Amin Salam affirmed that the Annual Investment Meeting succeeded to promote the United Arab Emirates as a world hub for trade and investment as well as being an important partner in the field of economic growth in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Furthermore, His Excellency stated: “the Annual Investment Meeting 2023 provided an important opportunity for Lebanon to reconnect with the International investment community and refer to the long term sustainable development’ needs.
He also added: “Discussions that took place during the Forum were of great importance in order to provide investment strategies to look into the future and pave the way for a new era of growth, namely that Lebanon’s economic future and its economic crisis’ recovery will not take place except by ensuring growth through stimulating investment flows at local, regional and international levels in main sectors such as the food security; renewable energy; digital infrastructure and logistic services that constitute an important part of the State’ plan to boost the growth and development of the foreign trade”.
In his turn, His Excellency Dr. Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi assured that the United Arab Emirates seeks by executing its leaders’ rationale vision to boost the trade and investment relations with the States of frontier economies all over the world to increase its non-oil foreign trade to 3 trillion dirhams by 2031. Moreover, His Excellency affirmed that his country is keen to strengthen the historical trade and investment bilateral relations between the two sisters countries in many sectors, mainly in the modern technology.
