Musa Sönmezler, President of Cyprus Turkish Chamber of Industry is attending 4th Annual meeting of Global Compact Network Form on 26th - 27th September in Barcelona.

Chamber of Industry, Chamber of Commerce and 16 firms are the members of Global Compact which was established by Kofi Annan the General Secretary of EU. Nearly a year ago ‘Global Compact Network’ project was offered by UNDP as a bi-communal project and it was for the membership of Cypriot firms.

Cyprus Turkish Chamber of Industry was selected in the North and Cyprus Employers Union was selected in the South by UNDP for the coordination of the project. Chamber of Industry cooperated with UNDP and started to find out the firms in TRNC.

Thus, South Cyprus Employers Union came up with the usual hypothesis and said ‘firms from North Cyprus can not attend Global Compact, because they can’t apply the conditions of the ‘General Secretary of EU’ and they resigned from the project. However, Chamber of Industry and UNDP decided to continue the project only in North Cyprus by involving Chamber of Commerce into the project and created a high participation. Now, Global Compact has no member from South Cyprus. Members of North are creating the network of North Cyprus.

Musa Sönmezler, President of the Cyprus Turkish Chamber of Industry and Dr.Ahmet Gürtuna, Board member or Cyprus Turkish Chamber of Commerce are representing North Cyprus at the meeting in Barcelona. They are leaving the Island on Sunday, 24th September.

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