Supporting private sector businesses

TDT Manama

The Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) stressed yesterday that it will harness all its efforts and potentials to assist the business sector in the Kingdom, and support private companies and institutions so as to be able to overcome the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the economic circumstances it has triggered.

This was affirmed by BCCI chairman Sameer Abdulla Nass, who expressed the business and industrial community’s deepest gratitude and appreciation to His Royal Highness the Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa for his sound directives to follow up on BCCI’s views on ways to overcome the impacts resulting from COVID-19 locally and globally.

HRH the Premier issued the directives while chairing the weekly Cabinet session on Monday, attended by His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and First Deputy Premier.

During the session, HRH the Prime Minister directed to follow up on BCCI’s initiatives, visions and studies on ways to address the challenges faced by the business sector, and overcome the impacts of COVID-19 on the private sector.

The BCCI chairman said that HRH the Premier’s directives reflect his keenness to deepen the principle of partnership in the economic decision-making process, in order to preserve the interests of the private sector, maintain its gains, and remove the obstacles and problems facing it.

He highly valued HRH the Premier’s swift response and personal follow-up on BCCI’s visions, which, he said, prove his close monitoring of everything aimed at contributing to the recovery of the national economy.

The BCCI chief emphasised that HRH the Prime Minister’s directives will strengthen and activate the partnership between the government and the private sector, which will lead to positive results in the coming period. This is more so given the fact that the private sector is the cornerstone of every economic effort, and that a solid private sector is essential for achieving expected goals.

The BCCI chief renewed the business community’s full-fledged support for the procedures approved by HRH the Prime Minister to support the private sector and stimulate it so that it maintains its key role in supporting the national economy.