The General Authority for Foreign Trade announced the establishment of the Saudi Business Council with Eastern European Countries. Hashim Alzahrani was elected as the chairman, and Abdullah Albasami and Marwan Almutlaq as vice presidents.
The Eastern European Countries are: Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Belarus, Lithuania and Molodova.
GAFT oversees the Joint Business Councils, which are representatives from the Kingdom's business sector and their counterparts in other countries, who have investments or business operations, and they are (47) bilateral and regional business councils.