Busan Signs Friendly and Cooperative City Agreement with Tunis, Capital of Tunisia
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At 2 pm on October 11th, the city of Busan signed an agreement to become a friendly and cooperative city with Tunis, the capital city of Tunisia at Busan City Hall.
Mayor Park Heong-joon and Tunis Mayor Souad Abderrahim, the first female mayor of the Arab country, attended the signing ceremony.
With the agreement, Tunis has become the city’s 13th friendly cooperative city and first in Africa. The two cities plan to expand mutual cooperation in various fields, including the economy, culture, trade, port, IT, and environment. Additionally, the agreement will foster the promotion of mutual prosperity, development and expansion of human exchanges.
Tunisia is a country with high stability and offers the promise of sustainability among African nations in relation to political, social, and economic aspects. According to Busan, it is meaningful because it can lay the foundations to enter into African markets through collaboration between corporations in Busan and Tunis.
The agreement is an achievement of a trade delegation comprising Busan local corporations that visited Tunis in May. The group succeeded in developing amicable relations with their counterparts in the African market through Tunisia, with the future hope of entering into agreements with surrounding nations.
Mayor Park remarked that if Busan becomes a friendly cooperative city with Tunis, Tunisia, a country that has good relations with surrounding African nations, we expect the door to African markets to open. He added his anticipation for vigorous exchanges in the economic, trade, cultural, and tourism industries between Tunis, referred to as the Paris of North Africa, and Busan, an international tourism city.
Mayor Park relayed his hope that Tunis will become a gateway in the African region for further negotiations and PR activities to attract the 2030 World Expo to Busan.
Busan is scheduled to strengthen its current urban diplomacy of sisterhood and amicable cooperative relationships with 39 cities in 29 countries with the addition of Tunis.
