Qatar- The Links Group, AGC sign pact 

(MENAFN - The Peninsula) The Links Group - leaders in company formation in the Middle East for 10 years - and the Australian Gulf Council (AGC) have signed a strategic partner agreement to promote and facilitate trade, investment and other opportunities between Australia and Qatar and the UAE.

The partnership was formalised during the Annual Investment Meeting in Dubai last week, a foreign direct investment conference organised by the UAE Ministry of Foreign Trade to encourage investment opportunities in emerging markets and high growth regions.

The Links Group, widely recognised as an important bridge between foreign companies, overseas trade bodies and local government agents, facilitates all matters related to establishing a commercial presence in Qatar and UAE. In its role as strategic partner, The Links Group will provide AGC and its members with valuable market intelligence to help enhance bilateral trade. According to the AGC, the GCC region represents one of Australia's top export markets worth A8,739m in 2010.

Stuart Curtis, Group Managing Director, The Links Group said: "Our partnership with the AGC underscores the growing foreign investor interest in the UAE and Qatar. We are delighted to lend our expertise and local market experience to help Australian companies wanting to tap the Gulf markets. "