(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Prime Minister, Abdullah Ensour, on Sunday, urged French businessmen and investors to invest in key projects Jordan plans to launch in areas of infrastructure, transport, energy and ICT among others.
Following talks with his French counterpart, Manuel Valls, Ensour said the French private sector is invited to invest in Jordan's pharmaceutical industry, fertilizers, Dead Sea products, agriculture and chemicals manufacture.
The prime minister noted that French investments in Jordan rank top among non-Arab ventures in the Kingdom, hoping the two sides organize a joint economic forum to explore business opportunities and potential areas of cooperation.
Ensour urged the European nation to extend additional support to Jordan to help the Kingdom grapple with an enormous Syrian refugees crisis which stretched already-strained resources. He thanked Paris for its support for the Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance project, which he stressed will help in easing pressure on the Kingdom's water resources.
The French prime minister said donors well understand the massive burdens bring borne by Jordan as a result of hosting a major influx of Syrian refugees on its territory, stressing that his country and the European Union will always stand by Jordan.
On the sidelines of the meeting, the government signed three loans agreements with the French Development Agency, under which the latter will extend 236 million euros in the form of soft loans to finance water and renewable energy projects.
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