A delegation from the Tunisian Agency for Technical Cooperation has offered to provide well-trained manpower for the private sector in the Kingdom. Headed by advisor Abdul Aziz Jazeeri, the delegation visited the headquarters of the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) here recently. The delegation met with JCCI Acting Secretary General, Muhammad Al-Harbi. Jazeeri said they held talks on ways to further activate joint cooperation with JCCI in a number of economic fields. They also discussed the possibility of providing Saudi private sector with well-trained workers. He said the agency, founded in 1972, is one the independent civil society institutions working under the umbrella of the Ministry of International Cooperation. “The agency works on implementing the national policy in areas of technical cooperation with friendly countries,” Jazeeri said.He added that the agency aims to introduce skilled manpower that is ready to be recruited in the context of technical cooperation and information framework. “The agency is making sure that Tunisian workers in Saudi Arabia, in particular, are of high levels of efficiency. The Tunisian manpower has witnessed a remarkable development in recent decades as the number of those eligible to work in the fields of education, medicine, nursing and health, electricity, IT, agriculture, petroleum and communications has highly increased,” he added. For his part, JCCI acting secretary general praised the commercial and economic cooperation between Saudi Arabia and Tunisia. “The cooperation between Saudi Arabia and Tunisia will witness a qualitative leap in the coming years, under the two countries' common desire to develop trade and economic relations between them,” Al-Harbi said. __
