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ITF welcomes landmark road transport cooperation agreement in the Arab world
12 January 2006
 |  | | President Ibrahim Hasan Al-Quaissi from Jordan (centre left) and President Amer Shukri from Syria (centre right) at the agreement signing ceremony | |
The ITF has welcomed a historic agreement to foster mutual cooperation and cross border solidarity between road transport unions in Syria and Jordan in a bid to improve trade unionism in the Arab region.
The agreement, signed at an ITF road transport workshop last November, will combine the efforts of the General Union of Road Transport and Mechanic Workers in Jordan and the Syrian Professional Trade Union of Transport Workers Syndicates. Together, they will work to persuade their governments to prevent unwarranted delays at cross border control points, provide assistance for each other’s members when they are outside their home country and increase formal contact between the unions to improve expertise. They also resolved to strengthen regional trade unionism by working with the Arab Transport Workers’ Federation and the ITF.
ITF Inland Transport Section Secretary Mac Urata commented: “The move by Arab unions to step up cross border cooperation is a welcome development in the region. We hope that it will become a model that other unions in the region and across the rest of the world might emulate.”
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