كما تعرفون انا يسعدني دائما الرجوع الى الاسكندرية - مدينتكم الجميلة العظيمة - لانها بتفكرني بمدينتي انا بوسطن لانها
as I say every time I get here, I am from a port city مدينة ميناء ، مدينة تجارية مثل الاسكندرية ومركز تعليم
as you are here مركز استقرار ومدينة تاريخية

So I feel very much as if I’m coming to a city so close to my own.

It is a special pleasure to be back among good friends, I’m very happy that so many came all the way from Cairo and also so many from Alexandria, who I have come to know after so many visits here in the past two years.

It is also a pleasure to have the President of Alexandria University here with us - Mr. Hassan Nasser - thank you very much for coming today. Some of you probably know that we are building great links with the president and other leadership of American institutions in Cairo and Alexandria. I hope to come back here after Ramadan to visit with some of the American students who are studying at the University of Alexandria and others as well.

Of course we have a great partnership with Mr. Mohamed Ragab and the Alexandria Business Association. Mr. Saeed Nawaf of Hizb al Watanee, thank you sir for coming today.

Suzan Rushdi thank you so much and congratulations on the opening of this fine hotel, another jewel in Alexandria’s crown.

Congratulations also to you, Hisham Talat Mustafa a great son of Alexandria, to the management and staff and to all the citizens on this newest asset and attraction. I think you will find us coming here all the more often thanks to your hard work.

Let me also thank and commend my friend Omar Mohenna, President of AmCham and the new leadership for this initiative in bringing us all here today. It’s a good thing that the American Chamber of Commerce of Egypt recognizes that it is the American Chamber of Commerce of Egypt and not just of the lovely capital of Cairo.

As much as I love Cairo, I love to get out to other places where Egyptians are building for the future and accomplishing great things.

Thanks also to my friend Hisham Fahmy for organizing today's event and getting us all here.

I have enjoyed meeting many of you here during my recent, too-short visits to the nearby area of the North Coast and its fine beaches. However that’s not where I spent this summer. I began by this summer visiting Alexandria's booming industrial town of Borg el Arab.

I thank Minster of Trade and Commerce Rashid Mohamed Rashid for supporting visits to other important commercial centers in Egypt like Damietta, Port Saeed, Ismailia and every place in Egypt especially in these industrial and business areas. In these areas I was glad to find that American investors, businesses and brand names are working in partnership with Egyptian business leaders, factory managers, and workers. All have inspiring stories of accomplishments and ambitious future plans for growth.

Here in Borg el Arab, I visited the National Vegetable Oils Company, a joint venture with American business leader Cargill to produce cooking oil and chicken meal to Egyptian farmers

Tom Polhill is here with us today, and he introduced to me these wonderful young Egyptian engineers, all graduates of Alexandria University, who are running this factory with high, world standards of safety, purity, and productivity. It really was a sight to behold. Tom I was glad to see the investment you are making in your people and the training there.

Mr. Mohamed Mofty is here today, thank you for being here. I also visited, here in Alexandria, Colgate Palmolive, Energizer. These and other American factories are setting the highest standards for environmental protection, work place safety and employee development.

When I returned to Egypt almost two years ago in August 2005, I became a fellow member of this great organization, the American Chamber of Commerce of Egypt. You have heard me many times describe the mission of the United States Embassy in Egypt, of which Justin Siberell’s American Center here in Alexandria is a very much integral part.

Our mission is to strengthen our partnership in order to secure peace and democracy and to expand prosperity to serve the American and the Egyptian people.

I must also state over and over again that I strongly believe and have confidence in Egypt and Egyptian-American relations. I am optimistic about the vitality of Egypt, Egypt’s future and the American-Egyptian partnership in so many fields.

Before talking about the focus of this afternoon's presentation, I would like to take a minute to talk about how people and countries value their relations, because I have noticed something a bit peculiar to Egypt, since I started working here 12 years ago. There are many ways Americans and other countries value their relations with each other.

In Egypt the big value we see is a strategic one; we Americans value the role of Egypt in protecting the region, and promoting regional stability and peace. Americans value what Egypt did for the modern world by achieving a breakthrough for peace. Specifically, I am referring to President Sadat's trip to Jerusalem 30 years ago in November 1977, the consequent establishment of peace and the protection of that peace by President Hosni Mubarak and others through all these years.

It is hard to put a price tag on that but it is deeply valued by Americans and I believe Egyptians value the American role as a partner in peace.

There is another way Americans value their relationships with others and that is in dollars and cents, meaning the measure of trade and investments. I am pleased to say that by that value our relationship with Egypt has been improving since 2001. Our trade value with Egypt has grown by 47% or US$6.5 billion in two-way trade. The trade is pretty much in balance, it slightly favors America as compared to Egypt. However this varies from time to time depending on grain orders/purchases, what machinery is being bought and oil prices, etc...

So that’s one measure and it’s an important one. However by this measure, our trade ties are not good enough. Especially given the cultural and other ties we have complementary to our economic ties, we would expect to have a larger amount of trade with a country of 75 million people. We each have things that the other needs, and this being the case we ought to have a much larger amount of trade.

If you look at Turkey, a country similar in size to Egypt but which doesn’t have gas, nor a significant amount of oil (much less than Egypt in fact) we see that Turkey has almost twice the amount of trade with the US. Turkey has something approaching 12 billion USD compared to 6 billion USD for Egypt.

I think we should work hard to change this and that is one reason I so value what AmCham does.

Let me mention that over the years a number of Egyptians, and some Americans, even some in the Congress tended to look at a different dollar amount as a measure of the health of Egyptian-American relationship: they looked at the amount of aid that has gone in to Egypt. But this is not an effective measure of the health of our relationship.

The fact is that in the early years right after Camp David, we gave 815 million US$ a year in economic assistance and 1.3 billion US$ in military assistance.

Other the past 10 years we mutually agreed that Egypt actually needs less economic assistance and therefore diminished the economic side of the ledger almost by half. This means the President’s request to Congress is now 415 million US$, a number that will be debated this fall and has been debated this year.

We've held the military assistance steady because Egypt has a great stake and values stability in the region. Egypt continues to have national defense needs that are vitally important to it and because they are vitally important to Egypt they are vitally important to us as your partners and allies. We have sustained that 1.3 billion US$ a year and recently President Bush and our administration consulted with Congress and decided to the extent possible in our annual processes of appropriation, to commit the US to sustain the military side of the ledger. We would like to continue the military assistance at 1.3 billion US$ a year for another 10 years.

We hope that future American administrations and Congresses will be bound by that and I am confident they will always see the strategic importance of Egypt.

But no one in my view should measure the health of the relationship through aid, because as Egypt grows stronger and more prosperous and begins requiring less aid itself, we'd like to see Egypt become an aid provider to the poorer countries in Africa. As we look at the future we are looking at the great growth in our trade and moderating levels of aid on the economic side, where needs will clearly diminish. Meanwhile we will sustain military assistance for a great and a powerful country that we want to stay that way.

Let me go back to the subject… I am proud to have spent much of my life in government, but I believe private business and free markets are powerful forces to promote peace, democracy and prosperity anywhere.

I therefore treasure our cooperation with the American Chamber of Commerce and its members throughout Egypt. AmCham has demonstrated that Egyptians not only welcome the goods and services of our great American companies and vice versa-- the Americans love to trade with Egypt-- but also that Egyptians admire, adopt, adapt and advance American best business practices.

The best American companies represented in AmCham are committed to transparency and accountability to shareholders, to training and compensating employees competitively and to protecting the environment and the safety of the workers.

The American Chamber has also championed the particular American corporate best practice which resonates with the Egyptian tradition of charity and generosity toward these most in need. This practice is called Corporate Social Responsibility. In Arabic, al Mosaliyat al Ijtimaia lil Sherikat.

Corporate Social Responsibly (CSR) is the commitment of businesses to contribute to a sustainable economic development by working with employees, their families, the local community and society at large to improve their lives in ways that are good for businesses and development.

I salute AmCham not only for its own direct social welfare programs but also for forming its committee to promote CSR in Egypt, led by Amr Qais, CEO the International Marketing and Managing Institute and Gemad Zaki, CEO of Percept Communications. These gentlemen are planning an information resources center to link partners in CSR in Egypt. I want you to know I have marked my calendar on Dec 11 and 12 to attend the two-day conference on CSR which the AmCham and this committee are putting on-- so count on me being there to show American support.

Like in the AmCham itself, our best companies have integrated CSR in their corporate cultures and brand names. CSR represents interest in people. This is one of the priorities, along with good governance, that President Bush has upheld as a primary goal and guiding priority of American foreign development assistance.

Before returning to some more examples of CSR in Egypt, let me cite some of the positive trade investment developments in Egypt and Egyptian-American businesses that have enabled our companies, both Egyptian and American, not only to improve their bottom lines but to look beyond them.

Here in Alexandria, and all over Egypt, I made a point to visit some of the more than 1.7 million Egyptians who are small and medium sized entrepreneurs. They are creating jobs and wealth from nothing more than their own dedication, business savvies and creativity, plus over 7 billion Egyptian pounds in small and microscopic loans that are provided through a number of Egyptian commercial banks. This is all done in cooperation with what is my favorite and indeed of the best USAID programs known as the microfinance program.

In Port Saeed, Gharbia, 10th of Ramadan, and Alexandria, I have visited some of the 138 Egyptian companies that are taking advantage of the Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZ) to produce and export high quality textiles and other goods to American consumers. In just the two first years of this program, Egyptian exports to the US increased by 60%, reaching 177 million US$ last year—only the second year of the program. The preliminary data for this year, 2007, shows that this growth rate is continuing. That is absolutely spectacular.

QIZ exports to the US are a great thing in themselves as they generate great profits for the American firms. Yet even more importantly, the QIZ activities and programs have created good jobs for those that most need them. There are over 100,000 Egyptians now working in QIZ factories and we hope to continue and expand that number.

Clearly strong economic growth facilitates CSR and vice versa. A recent survey on the Global Corporate Citizenship published by the World Economic Forum shows that CEOs link corporate competitiveness, governance, and citizenship and that CSR has strategic relevance for businesses. For instance CSR means employee recruitment, motivation and retention. Another survey revealed that more than 60% of government workers prefer to work for companies that provide volunteer opportunities. CSR also enhances market competitiveness and positioning.

Smart, younger investors in particular are looking into another acronym; SRI, or Socially Responsible Investing and other funds which meet high environmental and social standards. Now, one in every eight dollars in professional management in the US is in SRI, a clear trend which extends to Egypt. Egyptian investors are familiar with investing in people. I have seen this done and met people doing this. By investing in such a way, many of these investors are deliberately also building relations with Americans, between Egyptians and Americans.

Boasting is not in the Egyptian tradition and so your philanthropists tend to do their good work quietly. However, I feel I should cite just a few of the most inspirational examples that I have had the privilege of coming to know about. I’ve come to know about these particular Egyptians institutions, companies and firms because they happen to be the ones that deal with American institutions, universities and so forth.

Obviously I will mention the Sawiris Foundation, which has really pioneered modern CSR in Egypt and has invested heavily in scholarships and grants to Egyptians to study at the top universities of the US. They do not require these young people to work for the company when they return. They do require the students return to Egypt. The US also enforces a visa requirement so that the students return to Egypt.

Recently, I met another group led by younger Egyptian investors, the Citadel Group. They put together a very generous scholarship fund for extraordinary young Egyptians who win admission on their own merits to the top American and other world universities, against global competition. These students compete against Asian, American, European students and win admission on their own merit. Only when they are admitted do they become eligible to compete for the scholarship offered.

Another great example of Corporate Social Responsibility is always provided by Oriental Weavers’ Mohamed Fareed Khamis. He is one of the most modest and quiet men I know, but also one of the greatest philanthropists and benefactors in Egypt. He too has focused particularly on education and in so doing has helped Egyptian-American relations prosper.

I also see President Arnold from AUC with a number of your senior staff so I really should mention that the AUC’s Gearhart Center was founded precisely to promote and develop the philanthropy in Egypt, building on a really ancient Egyptian tradition of private charity. Of course AUC itself would not exist without the generous support quietly given by so many private Egyptian, American and other Arab benefactors.

In fact as I mentioned at the outset, education is a principal focus of many of the Corporate Social Responsibility programs we see here. It’s a field in which American-Egyptian cooperation is strong and growing. As I mentioned at the outset with President Hassan Nasser of Alexandria University, I do hope to come back next month and celebrate such cooperation, and see what we can do to work together further.

There is always the risk of leaving someone out when citing a few names, but I will take the risk and cite a few more.

In the past two years I have had the privilege of visiting many of you, many of your factories, showrooms, etc… though not all. Forgive me if I’ve only yet scratched the surface of the good things that I see American companies and AmCham doing.

Those companies I have personally seen include HP, Oracle, CISCO, Intel, Microsoft, basically everybody involved in the IT sector, and who are involved with the Egyptian government in advancing not only training programs but also educational programs that bring modern technologies to the classroom.

Other companies I have seen include Pepsi, Coca Cola, Google, Boeing, Protector and Gamble, Kraft, Lilly, Marc Sharp & Dome, Exxon Mobil, General Motors, UPS, Pregis and Xerox, and also as already mentioned Energizer, Cargill, and Colgate-Palmolive.

In 2005, just before I got here, Laura Bush visited some of the girls’ schools that Apache Corporation supports. Apache Corporation is one of the leading American investors in Egypt in the field of gas exploration and development, and a big supporter of girls’ schools around Egypt, especially in the poorer sectors of Egypt.

Let me just cite two more American companies because the US government has conferred formal recognition on them at the global level through the US Secretary of State’s Annual Award of Program Excellence, which goes to American companies that exemplify the best in corporate citizenship overseas. Coca Cola Egypt won the ACE award for 2001 for its outstanding CSR activities here in Egypt. As an ongoing example, Coca Cola Egypt has partnered with the Egyptian government, NGOs and the Ministry of Environment and the US Agency for International Development to promote environmental conservation and recycling of solid waste management.

Earlier this year, I presented Microsoft Egypt with the Secretary of State’s 2006 Special Citation Report for Excellence. Microsoft has trained teachers to enhance the ability of children with special needs to communicate. Microsoft has partnered with the Ministry of Social Affairs to create a web portal in order to raise funds, awareness and volunteers to help Egypt's disadvantaged children. Microsoft's program at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology brings IT training to thousands in impoverished rural areas in the Nile delta and other regions.

This is the American Chamber of Commerce and we’re here to talk about business and trade and what lies ahead. As I said earlier, an important measure of the value of a relationship is trade and investment, and the US government is dedicated to promoting that, and has a lot of activities happening in that regard. We are in close contact with government- government, private sector – private sector and crosswise. In fact, one of the next big milestones, which I will discuss with Minister Rashid the day after tomorrow, is that in November, the US Secretary of State will be welcoming Minister Rashid, the US-Egyptian Business Council and AmCham (since there is a lot of overlapping membership) as they both visit the US. Parts of their programs will be overlapping and other parts will be separate. We very much look forward to keeping engagement going between our two countries, two governments, and two private sectors as well as boosting trade and investment.

Another very important event coming up, which the US Department of Commerce is sponsoring via our embassy, is the first of what we hope will be an annual Middle East and North Africa US trade exhibition entitled "Made in the USA". We are hosting this in the Cairo International Conference Center in January. The intent is to showcase the latest developments in products, services and technology to the regions' top businessmen, buyers, distributors and manufacturers.

I hope to see you all there. We could think of no better place to have this conference, for all Africa and the Middle East, than Egypt. I hope you recognize this as an act of confidence by the United States of America in Egypt and its future and this region.

Thank you very much for your attention.

To all my Muslim friends, congratulations and best wishes for Ramadan Karim, in just a few days.

Now I would be glad to hear your comments, questions, and respond to any of your concerns regarding Egyptian-American relations. Thank you.

Question- First question Mr. Ambassador, would you please comment on the recent unfounded rumors regarding the demise of President Mubarak?

Answer- They are not true. They are completely unfounded. It saddened me to see this kind of thing could happen in Egypt, and of course it particularly bothered me because one variant of the rumor was to suggest that the United State of America, that I personally, or that our embassy or people in Washington or whatever, somehow had a role in promoting such rumors.

Let me tell you in Arabic, [Ambassador speaks in Arabic] it did not happen. We had no role in such things, it is ridiculous. We have relations that are important to us.

عندنا علاقات متينة ووطيدة استراتيجة وقوية ونتعاون مع مصر دائما على اساس الاحترام الكامل والجدية والاحتراف

We don’t play games. I am in touch with a lot of Egyptians. I see many people in this room here all the time, as well as others. I hear all kind of odd things and I always speak candidly and respectfully of your country leadership. My disappointment is this: when these things starting going around, no one from the media contacted our press office. I kept watching this junk being printed in the media, and talked about on television.

We have a 24-hours a day media operation. You can reach our press office 24 hours a day by calling this number 279-7330 (in Cairo). If you are outside Cairo, dial 02 first.

ارجوكم اكتبوا النمرة دي لمن هو من الصحافة او الاعلام

Write that number down, please. If you hear anything, any idea, any rumor, اتهامات ، اشاعات
any kind of talk going around that touches on the Egyptian-American relationship, anything involving the US or me personally, or the activities of the American diplomats, the embassy or our polices… Contact us. Check the website, but contact us any time of the day or night and ask. We would never lie. If we cannot comment we do not comment, but we will tell the truth. Our press office gives timely, accurate, relevant information to anyone who asks. Sometimes you do not even have to ask. We put out announcements, but we will not do so in response to rumors. When we are asked we will respond.

We invite questions not just from independent or opposition papers, but also the government papers. We invite them also to contact us.

This number is a 24 hour number. It is a switchboard but you don’t get a recording, it is a live person all day, all night, on weekends, on Fridays, during the Eid, or American holidays, and the operators will always put questions from the media to the media office.

You will always find our spokesperson. If we don’t know the answer immediately, we will find it and we will get back to you—that’s how we do business... We are always here!

Thank you for asking this question.

Question- The US media, the Egyptian media are sending a negative message… Who do you believe is right, and who is wrong?

Answer- There is good news and bad news. In the American media business they say "If it bleeds, it leads" which could be cynicism that some people in the media have but I know an awful lot of American and Egyptian journalists who are not cynical and are looking for the truth. They want, need and live on timely, accurate, relevant information. It is the role of all of us, whether we are content providers (as we in the Embassy are) or whether we are in the news media, to deal with each other in a straight and open way. That is what I pledge to the Egyptian media. I have had almost nothing but good experiences with the Egyptian media since I’ve come back after being away since the 1980’s. I find that the standards of the media here have come way up. There is much more seriousness, more energy and more independent media. I don’t want to blame the media for bad news; bad news happens and bad news sells. Yet I give particular credit to those in the media who, even when dealing with bad news, try to get it right.

Question- What is the status in the US Congress on the proposal to remove a total of 200 million US$ from the US military assistance budget?

Answer- I will give a short version for that. One House of the Congress has passed a bill that would withhold 200 million US$ in the form of military assistance to Egypt subject to certain conditions, that the Secretary of State would have to observe and ask from Congress.

The Senate recently completed work on Friday on its version of the bill which did not contain a single revision to the House bill. The Senate version contained a sense of a Congress statement regarding other concerns, in fact the same concerns but not withholding the funding. The Congress, like the Administration, is reflecting the will and interests of the American people.

We care about Egypt, its national strength, the strength of its armed forces. Egypt is a rock of stability in this area and must remain so for Egypt's sake and also for ours.

We have an interest in the stability of the region. We also care about Egypt’s prosperity, which is why we provided so much in economic assistance over the years. It is also why we are now emphasizing growing our trade and investments relationship and continuing economic assistance for a while longer, though at lower levels, to promote prosperity. Finally, we do care about democracy and human rights in Egypt and we don’t listen to these people who say that Egypt isn’t on the right path. It saddens me to hear some Egyptians say, “We lost our way,” “We are no longer the influence we used to be in the region,” or other things like this. America neither believes nor accepts that. We think Egypt was a leader in this region remains a leader and will remain a leader.

Therefore we believe it is some important for democracy to prosper here. Not something we impose, not a reckless resort to elections that are not properly prepared, with people who are not properly educated and registered, not this. Rather, Egypt will find its own way to its own democracy, in its own time. All the Americans care about is that there be continuing progress, defined by Egyptians, not by the US.

We would like to support where we can support. We cannot impose democracy. Secretary Rice has said no one imposes democracy; it is dictatorship that it imposed.

Democracy is the right to freedom, as President Bush has said it is the right of every man, woman and child on this planet. So we care about those things in Egypt. There are those in the Congress who believe if we use our military and economic assistance one way or the other we can support the process of democracy and strengthen the process of democracy.

There is a debate in Congress, and between the Administration and the Congress, as to what can be accomplished with our aid, regarding democracy and human rights. The Administration is trying to use our economic assistance specifically to help Egypt become more prosperous, more free and democratic. We try to use military assistance to insure Egyptian national security and defense are always rock solid, led by Egyptians, commanded by Egyptians, and decided by Egyptians. This is such an important subject, but I will close it here.

I expect Congress will continue its debate, and will see whether the President will accept their legislation on foreign assistance as a whole. There are many provisions in the bill that the President will object to and we will watch as it works through our legislative processes. But I am confident we will continue our military and economic assistance to Egypt.

Question- Regarding the peace process, is it sustainable or are we on a temporary search that was carried away?

Answer- Not only is it sustainable, it is vital that it be sustained and more than sustained with President Mubarak, with the Arab League, with the other very responsible and peace loving governments of this region. We believe that these processes must produce results. We are not at all interested in the process for the sake of the process any more we are in the sake of business for being busy. We want to see outcomes, results. We want to see at the end of this a just and lasting peace. President Bush is the first American president who has articulated a vision of two states living side by side in peace. This remains our view. We think this is what the majority of the Palestinians and the Israelis want, and what basically all the Arab states want. We know it is hard, we know there are exceptional challenges on the Israeli side, the Palestinian side and in the Arab world at large. There are those who would obstruct it. There are now factors like Iran trying to exacerbate tensions rather than work with the rest of us. But we are committed, and choose to be optimistic and believe it can be done. We are very dedicated to working with our friends this autumn, in the next two months, to see if we can bring the parties together, really bear down and get results from this conference.

Question- There is presently no free trade agreement with the United States in the horizon. What is the US going to do compete with Europe and the EU for the interest of Egypt?

Answer- We are competing, but we are also partners in economic affairs. We are competing with China, Egypt, the EU, but we are also partners in trade and investment with all our competitors at the same time. That’s the way the global economy works.

I don’t see the Egyptian economy and the US economy so much as in competition. I think it is a terrific thing that the government of Egypt in the past three years has shown confidence that Egypt can compete in the world market. You have been successfully competing with the fiercest low cost producers, namely China, India, and South East Asia. Egyptian goods and services can be done not only at low cost but at high quality and Egypt is to be congratulated for proving that to the world.

I don’t hear so many Egyptians complaining about globalization. Yes, there are structural dislocations that come from globalization—they impact American workers and American consumers as well, but Egypt is showing it can compete. I believe it’s a great thing that Egypt has struck new trade deals with Europe, and Russia, for example. President Mubarak was in China last year, clearly the Egyptian-Chinese trade is growing, and inevitably it will grow further. But trade with the US is growing too. We believe we can compete in the world and Egypt can too. Even without the free trade agreement we are deeply engaged in removing the barriers to trade and investment.

We have senior technical officers are here from the negotiator office that was here a couple of weeks ago. When the Egyptian-American delegation goes to Washington in November there will be more meetings with trade and industry. We will be looking at something called the TIFA, Trade Investments Framework Agreement. We have one right now, we want to see if we can have a TIFA “plus.” We are talking about a bilateral investment treaty. We have one, it has been here since 1982 and 1986 and we would like to have a modern one with Egypt as we have with our other trading partners.

We want to work with Egypt in approving intellectual property rights not only because American produces intellectual property but you do too. For example, the Egyptian film industry, broadcast industry, recording industry, and they need intellectual property protection. Also, pharmaceutical companies—you will get more pharmaceutical investments here only if intellectual property rights are protected more strongly.

So we are deeply engaged in a serious way, between our two governments, to improve the competitiveness of Egyptian producers and American producers.

Question: You mentioned during your speech that the trade between Turkey and US is double the trade between Egypt and the US. How do you believe we can reach this level of trade and who should be mobilized to achieve this?

Answer: We should look at what the Turks are doing and what you are doing to see what is working right there and try to emulate that to an extent here. I think all the things that I just touched upon, removing barriers to trade and investment in a deliberate, focused, targeted way, through the process of a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement, plus the bilateral investment treaty, strengthening your IPR laws, cooperation and enforcement. These are all ways we can improve the trade and investment picture between us.

Question- You have communicated in a very reasonable way the reason for decreasing non-military aid to Egypt. Why can't all such central issues be communicated in the same way so as not to have a negative effect? Why can’t sensitive issues be communicated in the same manner as you have communicated this reason for decreasing non-military aid?

Answer- The system we have is the political system in the United States of America. We debate things freely and openly and sometimes forcefully in our Congress. That is the way it should be in democracy. Our press and media is relentless in going after the facts and examining them, in debating how our aid is used or allegedly misused.

We are going to keep being us and you are going to keep being you. We are not going to change you, you are not going to change us, but we will keep communicating with each other in a respectful, transparent, open way regarding economic assistance, military assistance, and everything else that unites us and divides us.

We would like to thank the Ambassador for his very informative presentation, and his very frank answers to the questions. We would like to thank you all for being here with us today. Thank you and this meeting is adjourned.

د/ أحمد نظيف رئيس الوزراء، والسيد/ بيل جيتس، والسيد/ عماد أديب في حفل الاستقبال الذي أعدته الغرفة التجارية الأمريكية بمصر

هذا القاء كان فى عام 2005

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ICT sector sponsors Now TAS covers the Gulf AmCham’s Tenders Alert Service (TAS) provides you with quick and easy access to thousands of tenders and projects with diverse business opportunities, published in prominent newspapers. AmCham disseminate online information about tenders, projects and news in Egypt provided by TAS content provider (E.C.C.C. - Market Service) in 2007 TAS has expanded to include coverage of Selected Projects and News Of the Gulf Cooperation Council GCC -Countries (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, UAE, and Kuwait) categorized by Business sector. BIC is launching this expansion in response to TAS clients’ requirements. 74,542 published tenders since Nov. 2000

Useful Links Business Opportunities ___________________________________ وهناك العديد من الخدمات التى تقدمها فى مجال التدريب من خلال معادلات وشهادات دولية أمريكية ... لكن ما يعرف عنها أن أسعارها باهظة فى الكورسات لكنها تضمن الكفاءة فى التعليم التدريب وأيضا التوظيف من خلال أكبر الشركات فى مصر والوطن العربى والشرق الأوسط بل والعالم بأجمعة... Since its inception in 1991, The Career Development Center (CDC) offers a variety of services for Human Resources Development designed to enhance not only the expertise of member companies, but also non-member as well as individual professionals interested to pursue further career developments.  While the CDC sets it as a priority to tailor programs to the needs of AmCham members, its services are also available to the wider business community. The diversified programs' portfolio serves a variety of individuals; from the Fresh Graduate Training Workshops to Advanced Professional Certifications, and even Business focused Programs for SME's.  If you are planning to further enhance your career professionalism, we invite you to take a few minutes to browse through our website and check your field of interest among the different offered programs.  We also encourage you to surf through our Career Development Center Newsletter Whether you are an employer or an employee, we are confident that you will find invaluable career tips and advice that will assist you in managing your everyday activities.  Should you need any career counseling and/or advice, please feel free to contact us through the links provided below. http://www.amcham.org.eg/HR/CareerDevCenter/Career.asp

وأيضا تقدم خدمة التعليم أون لاين ... من خلال مواقعها وروابطها المختلفة ...

Online Training Service (OTS)

خدمه التدريب أون لاين

أكثر من 200 دورة تدريبية باللغة الانجليزية فقط

تقدم الغرفة التجارية الامريكية بالتعاون مع شركة مايندليدرز الامريكية خدمة التدريب عبر الانترنت و التى تتيح لمستخدميها حرية الاختيار من بين أكثر من 200 دورة تدريبية باللغة الانجليزية فقط فى مختلف المجالات مثل الادارة, التسويق , المبيعات , تكنولوجيا المعلومات و تطبيقات الحاسب الالى.

من أهم مميزات الخدمة أنها تعطي المستخدم حرية أختيار المكان و الوقت الملائم للحصول على هذه الدورات من خلال الانترنت

http://www.amcham.org.eg/bic/OLT/OTS_Arabic.asp

أسئلة متكررة
	ما هى خدمة التدريب عن طريق الانترنت ؟
	ما هو اسلوب و منهج الدراسه عن طريق الانترنت؟ هل يعتمد على محاضر, فيديو ام نص مكتوب؟
	كيف احصل على هذه الدورات, هل تكون فى شكل كتب ام اسطوانات مضغوطه ام يتم انزالها من على الانترنت؟
	ما هى مواعيد الدورات ؟
	هل توجد امتحانات احتاج الى اجتيازها بعد الانتهاء من الدورات للحصول على الشهادة؟
	هل احصل على شهادة بعد الانتهاء من هذه الدورات؟
	هل مصاريف الحصول على الشهادات متضمنة فى سعر الباقات/ الدورات ؟
	هل يجب اتباع ترتيب معين للمحتوى الذى يدرس ؟
	هل يجب الانتهاء من كافة الدورات التى تتضمنها الباقة للحصول على الشهادة ؟
	هل يوجد اطار زمنى احتاج للانتهاء من الدورات خلاله؟
	كبف يمكننى التسجيل فى هذه الخدمة ؟

كبف يمكننى التسجيل فى هذه الخدمة ؟

1. تسجيل اشتراكك فى الباقة/ الدورات على الانترنت: و ذلك من خلال موقع الغرفة على الانترنت فتدخل على ...... و تملاء استمارة الاشتراك
2. دفع الاشتراك: توجد عدة وسائل للدفع يمكنك الاختيار من بينها الانسب لك:
   
   1. الدفع النقدى/ الشيك : فى هذة الحالة يجب طباعة نسخة من عرض الاسعار التى ترسل اليك على بريدك الاكترونى و التوجه الى مركز الغرفة الرئيسى فى 33 شارع سليما اباظة, متفرع من شارع جامعة الدول العربية, الدقى. مواعيد الخزينة يوميا من 9-2 و العطلة الاسبوعية يومى الجمعة و السبت من كل اسبوع.
   2. الدفع من خلال كروت ائتمان:و ذلك اما من خلال الدفع فى مركزنا كما هو مذكور اعلاه او من خلال ارسال صورة الكارت على البريد الاكترونى ......... مع نسخة من عرض الاسعار او يمكنك ارسالها على فاكس رقم 33389896. و يجب التاكد من وضوح الامضاء و الرقم الموجود على ظهر الكارت.
   3. الدفع عن طريق كارت ائتمان عبر الانترنت :: عند اختيار هذه الطريقة تظهر لك استمارة لتدخل فيها تفاصيل كارتك الائتمانى.
   4. التحويل البنكى:
      
      • رقم السويفت: UBOEEGCX (United Bank Of Egypt), El Mohandessin Branch 76 Gameat EL Dowal EL Arabia St. Giza
      • Tel. #33360504 Fax#33360510
      • المستفيد : الغرفة التجارية الامريكية بمصر، 33 شارع سليما اباظة, متفرع من شارع جامعة الدول العربية, الدقى.رقم بريد12311
      • رقم الحساب : 155000
      معلومة تهمك : عند استكمال اجراءات التحويل البنكى برجاء ارسال نسخة من بيان التحويل الذى تحصل علية من البنك و ارساله الى البريد الاكترونى sramzy@amcham.org.eg مع نسخة من الفاتورة التى ترسل على بريدك الاكترونى عند الاشتراك و ذلك لنتمكن من استكمال الاجراءات الخاصة باشتراكك. 4ا - البدء بأستخدام الدورات / الباقات : يتم تشغيل الخدمة بعد القيام بدفع عرض اسعار الدورات/الباقات التى اشتركت فيها , و ذلك خلال يومين عمل او ثلاثة,. يرسل اليك بريد الكترونى بأسم المستخدم و كلمة المرور الخاصة بك لتتمكن من الدخول على الدورات / الباقات التى اشتركت بها و ذلك من خلال زيارة الموقع الاكترونىwww.amcham.org.eg/OTS. ثم الدخول على Access Your Courses و ادخال أسم المستخدم و كلمة المرور الخاصة بك.
   
   
   للتسجيل ,,


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