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BUSINESS REPORT

Bangladesh Ambassador-designate to Morocco Mosud Mannan called on Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) president Habibullah N Karim on Tuesday.

During the meeting, vice president of BASIS Shameem Ahsan, secretary general Nahid Ahmad, secretary M Nurul Amin and program manager Hashim Ahmed were also present.

The BASIS president dwelt upon about the initiatives and activities undertaken by BASIS. He stated that presently BASIS has 262 member companies, who are actively involved in software and IT Enabled Services (ITES) business.

Referring to the JICA study report, BASIS President added that, Bangladesh has significant capabilities and efficiency in the field of Software and ITES.

He requested the Ambassador to promote Bangladesh Software and ITES in the Morocco and other 4 neighboring countries for which he is concurrently accredited.

Ambassador-designate to Morocco Mosud Mannan thanked BASIS for inviting him. He stated that he is concurrently accredited for other four African countries, such as Mali, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leon.

He further stated that Morocco is developed in the field of tourism, education, fashion designing etc. As majority of the people of Morocco speak in French, a brochure may be published in both English and French and if possible in Arabic describing the products and services of software and ITES of Bangladesh to promote the same in the African market. He assured that he would try his best to help penetrating Bangladeshi software and ITES in African markets as like other Bangladeshi products such as RMG, pharmaceuticals and fertilizer.

BASIS President gave him some BASIS publications.