The visiting high profile twelve-member French delegation while exchanging views with members of Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) yesterday expressed their willingness to enhance cooperation and collaboration as it found an investment and business friendly climate in Bangladesh.

Phillippe Vindry, the leader of the delegation, observed that the facilities offered here are sure to woo investors and entrepreneurs and said the delegation would help draw French investment in Bangladesh.

Phillippee Vindry, also the President Delegation of Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris (CCIP), underscored the need for developing infrastructures, particularly that of export-oriented industry sector, as a pre-condition for increasing investment and said that CCCI and CCCP would work jointly for the same.

The delegations expressed interest in providing technology and technical assistance to develop Tele-communications and help high-speed Internet, and set up water treatment plants like the one at Sayedabad in Dhaka.

French Ambassador in Bangla-desh Jacques-Andre Costilhes, speaking at the meeting, said the members of the French delegation as well as he were highly impressed with the Export Processing Zones and the other industrial units in Bangladesh.

Earlier, CCCI President Amir Humayun Mahmud Chowdhury in his welcome speech called upon the French delegation for making investment in Bangladesh, particularly in Chittagong, which with a geographically strategical location emerged as a business hub in this region.

CCCI Senior Vice-president Ershad Ullah, former CCCI President Engineer Ali Ashraf, CSE President Habibullah Khan, Rasul Nizam and Monowara Hakim Ali also spoke at the meeting.