The National Dialogue’s committee on public investment priorities is expected to hold extensive sessions over the few coming weeks to discuss all investment challenges and agree on a set of recommendations and proposals, Assistant Rapporteur of the committee Mahmoud Samy told MENA on Saturday 06/05/2023.
Taking up one year now, arrangements for this part of the Dialogue focused on many themes related to the public investment track, Samy said, noting that the committee had already received a large number of proposals and agreed on the related topics and speakers.
He added that the government had been studying these proposals to come up with rapid solutions to the country’s most pressing economic problems.
The committee’s sessions will also address the State’s role in stimulating investments, especially in the private sector, as well as its role in the public investments that benefit the private sector in the education, healthcare, telecommunications, and infrastructure domains, among others, Samy said.
The committee will also discuss the active role played by the Sovereign Fund of Egypt (TSFE) to support public-private partnerships, he pointed out.
The opening session of the National Dialogue kicked off Wednesday at the International Convention & Exhibition Centre in Nasr City, Cairo, with heavy participation from representatives of all segments of the Egyptian society, as well as NGOs, media figures, university presidents, heads of think tanks, members of the two chambers of the parliament, and clergymen, among others.
In his pre-recorded speech for the session, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi urged all participants to do their best to ensure a successful national dialogue.
During the annual Egyptian Family Iftar banquet on 26 April, 2022, President Sisi called for the dialogue that he would include all of the country’s political forces, without exception or discrimination.
In September 2022, the 19-member board of trustees completed its selection of rapporteurs and assistant rapporteurs for the dialogue’s three main tracks (political, economic, and social) and their 19 subcommittees.
Recommendations that will be made by the subcommittees will be referred to the board to be sent to the president for a final say, according to previous remarks by the General Coordinator of the National Dialogue Diaa Rashwan.
The President has asserted that all intellectuals, syndicates and political forces are invited to the dialogue, while assuring that only one faction is exempted from it, in reference to the Muslim Brotherhood group.
Source: State Information Service Egypt