Government decides on support for textile workers, adopts industry as national project

Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb said the government has decided to give full support to textile workers to revive the industry, adding that important decisions were made to develop the industry.

Daily News Egypt received a statement of Mehleb’s meeting on Tuesday discussing the issues of the textile industry, while creating a map for its development. The meeting was held in the presence of the Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour, the chairman of the Cotton and Textile Industries Holding Company, chairman of the ‏Egyptian Chamber of Textile Industries, and chairman of General Union of Textile Workers.

Mehleb demanded that two urgent meetings be set, the first including the ministers of industry and agriculture and officials of the Egyptian Chamber of Textile Industries. In this meeting, they will agree on a policy for cotton cultivation. The second meeting will decide on a road map to develop the textile industry into a national project. This followed a conference that was held earlier this week, in which these recommendations were added.