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Indonesia to propose new platform to boost Asian-African business ties

Xinhua, April 20, 2015 Adjust font size:

Indonesia has been mulling to propose setting up a business council to strengthen trade ties between Asian and African business communities.

The Jakarta Post reported on Monday that the planned platform, dubbed the Asia Africa Business Council (AABC), is aimed at providing more regular meetings between key business players in the two continents.

The proposal is likely to be put forward at Tuesday's 2015 Asian-African Business Summit (AABS), which is part of this year' s Asian-African Conference. "We think it is necessary to establish the AABC, which will enable us to concretely implement the decisions taken during the AABS,"AABS Chairman Noke Kiroyan was quoted as saying.

Noke said the AABC will also serve as a monitoring agency, encouraging the AABS agreements to be translated into more real business deals and partnerships. Endi