Prime Minister Ahmed Hachani met on Friday at the Government Palace in the Kasbah with the Special Envoy of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Korea and the CEO and Director of KIA Motors, Ho-Sung Song.
The Prime Minister expressed Tunisia's readiness to further develop bilateral cooperation relations between Tunisia and South Korea, urging Korean companies to take the initiative to invest in Tunisia and strengthen Tunisian-Korean-African trilateral cooperation.
During the meeting, the two sides reviewed ways to develop bilateral partnership in strategic areas such as attracting the Korean tourism market to Tunisia and youth and cultural exchanges between the two countries.
For his part, the Special Envoy of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Korea expressed his country's readiness to double Korean investments in Tunisia, particularly in the automotive parts industry, in order to make Tunisia a regional platform for industrialisation and expansion towards African and European markets.
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse