PM Khasawneh also held a meeting with Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ADQ, an Abu Dhabi-based investment and holding company, Mohamed Hassan Alsuwaidi.
The PM said Jordan welcomes more Emirati investments in the Kingdom, expressing the government’s keenness to follow up on completion of the investment projects implemented by ADQ in Jordan and remove any obstacles that hinder their implementation.
PM presented the key measures taken by Jordan to enhance the investment climate and remove obstacles and challenges facing the investor environment.
In this regard, he pointed to the establishment of the Ministry of Investment and endorsement of Jordan’s new investment environment law, which unified investment references and removed multiple bureaucratic obstacles, which contribute to attracting local and foreign investments and enabling those already launched.
In addition, the PM met with Indian businessman Gautam Adani, Founder and Chairman of the Adani Group, one of the largest international companies.
During the meeting, which was attended by Minister of Finance Mohammad Al-Issis, Khasawneh highlighted Jordan’s “attractive” investment environment, which aims to attract more foreign investments and enable existing ones, welcoming the group’s investments in the major projects that Jordan intends to implement.
PM also expressed Jordan’s readiness to be a regional center for launching the group’s business and investments in the region’s markets.
For his part, Adani affirmed his group’s interest in investing in Jordan in more than one sector, in light of the Kingdom’s available ” promising” investment prospects.
The two sides also agreed during the meeting to exchange visits between Jordanian government officials and the group to discuss available investment opportunities.
Source: Jordan News Agency