ISTANBUL - Small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) working group, which was formed under the structure of the Industry and Business World Committee of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), convened in Istanbul on Wednesday.
The group, which convened under the Second OECD Ministerial-level International Conference on SMEs in Istanbul, will discuss ways to increase works of SMEs in the global atmosphere.
Ahmet Ecmer Yorganci, the representative of Directorate General of Small and Medium Scale Industry Development (KOSGEB) in Brussels, said that the group was formed by representatives of the OECD-member countries developing SMEs policies in each country.
Yorganci added that the group convenes twice in a year.
On June 4, ministerial-level meeting will take place.
Nearly 70 ministers from member countries and non-OECD countries and about a thousand technocrat and businessmen will attend the conference at Istanbul's Lutfi Kirdar Congress and Exhibition Palace.
The theme of the conference was announced earlier as ''Promoting Entrepreneurship and Innovative SMEs in a Global Economy''.
Representatives of international organizations and non-governmental organizations will also attend the conference.
An exhibition of ''Global Marketplace'' will be held between June 3 and 6. The exhibition will offer enterprises, business associations and technical centers the opportunity to display their activities and products and benefit from pre-arranged Business-to-Business (B-to-B) appointments.
The first conference took place in Bologna, Italy, in 2000.
(UK-AÖ) 02.06.2004