According to Vanguard The Federal Government has called for the abolition
of visa requirement among Developing Eight (D-8) member Countries, which are Nigeria,
Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan and Turkey.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the call when he met with the Secretary General of the organisation, Dr Seyed Ali-Mohammed, on Wednesday, in Abuja:
“One area that I think D8 must to work on and if really they want to
succeed, they must make sure that there is no barrier in term of visa among
those eight countries.The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the call when he met with the Secretary General of the organisation, Dr Seyed Ali-Mohammed, on Wednesday, in Abuja:
“You cannot grow any trade talk less of tourism, if I cannot have easy
access to Malaysia, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan.
“You can imagine the volume of trade that will develop overnight if only
you can make sure that if I want to go to Iran that there is bilateral
agreement between Nigeria and Iran, between Nigeria and Pakistan and among
those eight countries that there will be free movement of people.
“It is free movement of people that will guarantee free movement of
trade.
“So, this is one area that I believe that you need to work hard on.’’
Mohammed, who commended the organisation’s focus on
tourism development, said the provision of infrastructure was critical to the
development of domestic tourism.
According to him;
According to him;
“Until you develop domestic tourism, you cannot have international
tourism”.
In his remarks, Ali-Mohammed said the purpose of
his visit was to intimate the minister about the organisation’s resolve to
focus on tourism development as the area of cooperation among member countries.
“The meeting today I am enthusiastic about tourism.
”Very recently, on the proposal of member states, we came to conclusion
that tourism or so could be."
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