Kabul Mayor Invites Turkish Businessmen To Invest In Afghanistan

BURSA - Kabul Mayor Anwar Jikdalig said on Monday that they wanted Turkish industrialists and businessmen to invest in Afghanistan.
Speaking to the A.A correspondent, Jikdalig said that Afghanistan, particularly its capital city Kabul was going through a speedy reconstruction process.
Recalling that Turkish and Afghan peoples had cultural ties that had roots deep in history, Jikdalig said that they were paying a visit to Turkey to consolidate and improve their cultural ties and economic relations with Turkey and they expected Turkish industrialists and businessmen to invest in Afghanistan.
Noting that there were nearly five million refugees outside Afghanistan and some of them had returned to their homeland, Jikdalig said that rebuilding of Kabul should finish as soon as possible.
Stressing that they supported the NATO, ISAF, U.N. and several international coordination organizations which existed in Afghanistan to provide security, Jikdalig said that they loved especially Turkish soldiers and they thought appointment of Hikmet Cetin as the NATO's top civilian representative in Afghanistan as very positive.
(MS-AY) 19.01.2004