Headline: Syria’s first steps towards free markets Source: Euromoney Date: July 2001 Euromoney asked Wafic Rida Said, businessman and chairman of the First Saudi Investment Corporation, to offer some thoughts on the opening up of Syria.
Syria is in an exciting period of transition – from one generation to another, from one economic model to another, from a closed system to an open one. The Association Agreement, which Syria is negotiating with the European Union, aims at a free trade area by the end of the decade. |