ALGIERS, March 9 (NNN-APS) — German Minister of Economy, Transport and Regional Development of Land of Hessen in central Germany, Dieter Posch, has recommended the setting up of an Algerian-German joint committee to support relations between the two countries.

At a news conference held here Sunday on the sidelines of a meeting between German and Algerian operators, Posch said his visit to Algeria was mainly aimed promoting the setting up of an Algerian-German committee which would deal with the issues relating to German firms’ bidding for Algerian economic projects.

For the German minister, the joint committee would have to “speed up and back German investments in Algeria, identify Algeria’s needs in terms of technology and know-how transfer, and settle the problems that may emerge as part of the contracts or partnership projects between the two countries”.

The committee should be composed of representatives of Algerian and German economic and political sectors, according to Posch, who is heading a delegation of employers from Hessen, which is home to German firms specialized in renewable energies and hydraulic resources.

It is the third delegation of German businessmen and operators to visit Algeria since the beginning of the year. Hessen, whose capital is Wiesbaden, hosts nearly 2,400 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) specialized in renewable energies. — NNN-APS

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