Stronger BD-Rwanda trade ties urged

The High Commissioner of Rwanda Mukangira Jacqueline has called upon the Bangladeshi entrepreneurs to invest in her country for mutual benefits of the two countries.
"An entrepreneur can avail company registration in less than six hours in Rwanda. Rwanda is the second fastest growing economy in Africa and fifth in the east African region in terms of creating network readiness," she said at a meeting with Senior Vice-President of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) Arman Haque at the DCCI Gulshan Centre in the capital on Sunday.
She invited Bangladeshi investors to invest in Rwanda.
The Rwandan envoy, based in New Delhi, said that the existing trade relation with Bangladesh is very friendly and it will be strengthened in the future.
She also called for stronger collaboration between the businesspeople of both the two countries.
She requested the DCCI to sign a MoU with its counterpart trade body in Rwanda to this end.
Welcoming the envoy, Senior Vice-President of DCCI Arman Haque said that Bangladeshi investors have a good prospect in the growing infrastructure sector of Africa's one of the promising countries, Rwanda.
Mentioning Rwanda as a member of the East African Community (EAC) and Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), he said Bangladesh could explore opportunities and forge collaboration with Rwanda in order to access other promising markets in the African continent.
He said that generic medicine, jute, contract farming and furniture have a good prospect for Bangladeshi entrepreneurs in Rwanda.
He requested the envoy to pursue her country's entrepreneurs (Rwandan) to import steel, cement, eco-friendly brick, PVC pipe, electrical cable and skilled construction workers from Bangladesh.
DCCI Vice President Monowar Hossain and Second Counsellor of the High Commission of Rwanda Irakoze Prosper were also present during the meeting.

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