Qatar-Turkey panel discusses ways to bring skilled Turkish workers to Qatar
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A Qatar-Turkey Joint Technical Committee, which was formed in accordance with an agreement to bring skilled Turkish workers to Qatar, held its second meeting through videoconference on Wednesday. The two sides discussed ways to make use of skilled workers from Turkey in Qatar, as well as the organisation of an employment fair in which Turkey will showcase the Turkish labour skills suitable for the Qatari labour market. The two sides also exchanged the best experiences of the two countries in combating the COVID-19 pandemic and the most important steps taken to limit the spread of the pandemic and its effects.
QATAR-TURKEY Joint Committee for Labour Affairs, which was formed to bring Turkish workers to Qatar, held its second meeting through video conference on Wednesday.
The Qatari side was chaired by officials from the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labor and Social Affairs (MADLSA) and Qatar Chamber (QC), while the Turkish side was led by Turkish Deputy Minister of Family, Labour and Social Service Ahmet Erdem.
MADLSA Assistant Undersecretary for Labour Affairs Mohammed Hassan Al Obaidly also took part in the meeting.
The meeting discussed issues related to the use of skilled workers from Turkey in Qatar as well as the employment fair in which the Turkish side will display the labour skills suitable for the Qatari labour market and coordinate with the Qatar Chamber to hold the exhibition through visual communication technology.
The two sides also exchanged the best experiences of the two countries in combating the COVID-19 pandemic.
They agreed to continue the peri
odic meetings of the joint committee to follow up the progress of work and develop means of cooperation between the two countries in the aforementioned fields.
QC General Manager Saleh bin Hamad Al Sharqi represented the chamber at the webinar with QC Legal
Affairs Department Director Abdulaziz Al Kuwari.
Speaking on the occasion, Sharqi said that Qatar and Turkey are associated with fast-growing cooperation relations that cover all fields, especially in commercial and economic aspects. He said that reinforcing cooperation in labour-related fields would further boost these relations.
Underscoring the role of the QatarTurkey Joint Committee for Labour Affairs, Sharqi stressed that the committee would open new vistas for cooperation in economic and commercial fields and would pave the way for establishing more commercial alliances and Turkish factories in Qatar, assuring that this would take the two countries’ relations to advanced levels.
Qatar’s private sector always welcomes the Turkish workers, Sharqi said adding that holding a joint employment fair would play a significant role in bringing more Turkish workers to the Qatari market.
He also noted that trade between the two countries has increased by 13 percent from 90 mn in 201 to 2.2 billion in 2019, while it hit 1.2 billion in the first half of this year.