Prime Minister Imad Khamis stressed on the craftsmen the importance of developing a development and investment expansion map for the craft industries, starting from supporting small and medium enterprises that play a big role in economic and social development, and constitute the economic arm of the government and the national economy, considering that this sector has a legacy Historically, it is necessary to market its products in foreign markets.

This came during a special workshop for the promotion of craft industries, chaired by the Prime Minister yesterday, in the presence of the President and members of the Executive Office of the General Union of Craftsmen and presidents of craftsmen unions in the governorates, where Khamis expressed the government's readiness to provide the necessary support to this union, whether at the level of providing loans or exemption from taxes and accumulations The financial implications of the hotspots, to the simplification of procedures, "because it is not permissible to extinction of any craft or traditional industry," pointing out that "as a government we have great faith in the Union of artisans, because it is most useful to us as a state, especially in the economic field.

During the meeting, they stressed the need to implement training programs to provide craftsmen with the skills necessary to develop their methods of work, expand their industries in quantity and quality, secure the raw materials of traditional crafts, start automating the crafts sector, continue to rehabilitate craft areas affected by terrorism, and attract craftsmen leaving abroad to revive the country. Their industries.

Source: Al Watan Newspaper