The head of the Tripoli-Lebanon Chamber discussed with the delegation of the Turkish Contractors Union “ASCON” the prospects for strengthening the economic partnership and expanding joint investment between the two countries.

The President of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture in Tripoli and North Lebanon, Mr. Tawfiq Daboussi, received a delegation from the Lebanese-Turkish Association of Men, Women and Youth “ASKON”, headed by the association’s representative in Lebanon, Dr. Gulshan Youssef Saghlam. The delegation included members of the Board of Directors: Tony Tohme, Bilal Baltaji, Tony Kallab, Mohieddin Al-Mulla, and Amin Bashir, in the presence of the Chamber’s Director General, Linda Sultan, and the advisor, Dr. Abdul Rahman Ghaleb. The meeting discussed ways to enhance economic and industrial partnership and expand the horizons of cooperation and investment between Lebanon and Turkey.

During the meeting, Dr. Saghlam gave an introduction to the “ASCON” group, which was founded in 1998 and whose network of relationships and activities extends to about 50 countries. She stressed the importance of building direct partnerships between businessmen and women, industrialists and youth in the two countries, exchanging experiences, developing production capabilities, and opening new markets. She also indicated the desire of the Turkish side to strengthen ties with the Tripoli Chamber and North Lebanon, especially in the sectors of food industries, agriculture, technology, hospitalization, artificial intelligence, and logistical solutions, in addition to various projects of common interest.

For his part, Mr. Tawfiq Dabboussi stressed the importance of strengthening the partnership between the public and private sectors in the two countries, and adopting an integrated approach that raises Lebanese-Turkish relations to the level of a strategic partnership based on mutual interests and complementarity of roles. He highlighted the promising investment opportunities offered by “Greater Tripoli”, starting with developing logistics services in the port of Tripoli and studying the construction of silts there to support regional food security, through organizing trade exhibitions in cooperation with the Rashid Karami International Fair, all the way to cooperating with municipalities to find sustainable solutions to the waste issue and improving the environment, and exploring partnership opportunities in the energy, oil and gas sectors.

Dabboussi stressed that the current regional transformations and the level of harmony and integration between public facilities and institutions open broad horizons for developing bilateral economic relations, which requires the formulation of new frameworks for joint cooperation. At the conclusion of the meeting, he expressed the Greater Tripoli Chamber’s readiness to transform these opportunities into actual, implementable initiatives, thus strengthening the partnership between the two countries and consolidating the position of “Greater Tripoli” as a pivotal platform for cooperation, investment, and economic openness.