Manama: Works, Municipalities and Urban Planning Affairs Minister Essam Khalaf signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Expertise France to improve planning and infrastructure in urban areas to expand Bahraini towns.
This follows His Majesty King Hamad’s meeting with French President in August last year, during which he expressed keenness to work further with France to provide technical assistance to implement the Bahrain-French Town Planning Initiative and improve infrastructure in Bahrain.
Bahrain is planning to expand its towns by benefiting from the French expertise and attract French companies.
The signing of the MoU was attended by French Ambassador Bernard Régnauld-Fabre, director of structural planning of the Urban Planning Directorate Khalid Al Ansari and officials from Expertise France.
Mr Khalaf said the memorandum aims to form a French-Bahraini team responsible for improving planning and infrastructure in urban areas to expand Bahraini towns.
Also, the role of Expertise France as technical agency for co-operation with French ministries has been considered.
The minister expressed pride at the Bahrain-French Town Planning Initiative, which centres around two main points – to improve the performance of the Urban Planning General Directorate; including re-structuring the directorate, training programmes and improving staff performance and review the urban planning strategy by providing human, information and technical expertise.
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