HRH Crown Prince meets business leaders during official visit to United States

His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and First Deputy Prime Minister this evening met Brendan P. Bechtel, Chairman and CEO of Bechtel Group Inc.; Linda McMahon, Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA); Todd Lamar Smith, Chief Financial Officer of International and Vice President at General Electric Company; Karan Krishna Bhatia, Vice President and Senior Counsel at General Electric Company; Douglas J. Pferdehirt, Chief Executive Officer of Technip FMC; and Daniel Myers, Executive Vice President of Global Integrated Supply Chain at Mondelez International, at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington DC.
His Royal Highness highlighted the positive levels of ongoing cooperation between Bahrain and U.S. enterprises, while noting the deep-rooted bilateral ties that exist between the two countries
His Royal Highness also highlighted the government’s commitment to fulfilling the strategic development goals underpinning Bahrain’s Economic Vision 2030 and its foundational principles of sustainability, competitiveness, and fairness
His Royal Highness stressed the importance of continuing to secure international investments in order to support Bahrain's ambitious development goals and deliver even further prosperity for its citizens
His Royal Highness went on to acknowledge that the series of recently announced agreements, amounting to USD 10 billion will directly benefit the private sectors in both Bahrain and the U.S.
Wide-ranging Bahrain-US agreements have been announced during an event held in collaboration between the American Chamber of Commerce and the U.S.-Bahrain Business Council.