Talal Mirza, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Makkah Chamber of Commerce and Industry, will inaugurate the first training program under the theme “How to be an international arbitrator” here on Saturday. More then 500 experts and consultants from various sectors will participate in the four-day program targeting 20,000 lawyers, judges, and legal advisers in addition to engineers, businessmen, doctors, members of industrial chambers, media personnel and university students. “We are facing many changes as well as challenges especially in the economic field. That explains the reason why we need highly trained staff in all sectors ready to resolve conflicts through the use of law,” said Dr. Mazen Tunsi, Assistant Chairman of the Board of Directors of Makkah Chamber of Commerce and Industry. “We are aiming to prepare a new generation of arbitrators who are able to be involved in important tasks regarding the World Trade Organization,” said Fahad Al-Shemrani, General Secretary of the Makkah Center for Arbitration and Conciliation. The program will discuss legal issues, such as, the development of legislative regulation of arbitration in Saudi Arabia, local and international arbitration, cyber crimes and ways and means to avoid them, etc. The program will be held under the supervision of Dr. Ahmad Sheta, General Secretary of the Afro-Asian Arbitration Center, and members of the International Arbitrator Institution in London, with the participation of bank employees and insurance companies, in addition to commercial, industrial, governmental and private sectors. The participants will be provided with certificates from the International Afro-Asian Center and Center for Arbitration and Conciliation presented by Dr. Abdul Aziz Al-Khoja, Minister of Culture and Information.
