Ethiopia to participate in Dubai Expo

Nov 9 , 2019


Ethiopia will be participating in EXPO 2020, which will be hosted in Dubai. The expo will take place with the theme "Connecting Minds, Creating the Future." The country's participation in the expo is expected to boost the bilateral trade relations between the two nations. Recently, Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, minister of Economy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), received Fetlework Gebre-Egziabher, minister of Trade & Industry, at his office. During her visit, Fetlework hailed the long-standing and growing relations between the two sides as she expressed her country’s determination to leverage their partnership across various domains. “Ethiopia has a large and emerging consumer market of up to 100 million people with promising economic potential and enormous, diverse resources that are still much untapped in a number of sectors,” the UAE minister said during the bilateral meeting.


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