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# The Syria Files

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## RE: meeting

Released on 2012-08-03 09:00 GMT

Email-ID | 196885
Date | 2012-01-25 17:55:13
From | i.alfadel@alfadelgroup.com
To | oshallah@nissan-sy.com

Dearest Omar,
Thank you for your kind and supportive below words.
Indeed it's not so bad being stuck in Dubai, although with Sima's
working hours, it's almost impossible to see her during the week. As
for Geneva, luckily we have only faced an issue with one bank, they
just want nothing to do with Syria. I am treating this issue as if
it's a big problem because I don't want in any kind of way to make my
employees feel that something has changed. I should manage to get this
bank to approve us as they simply need to be assured that we have a
dubai residence as Syrian residents in general cannot work today with
Swiss banks.
I will be back to Damascus on Friday and will make it back here to
Dubai the week starting Saturday the 4th.
Concerning our meeting in Damascus with Noha, I am available to meet
on the 1st of February and the 2nd, yet i can also fit in a meeting in
the morning of the 29th.
I second your opinion of insuring that Wadie is serious about the
project before we take any further step.
Finally I fully agree concerning our collaboration that I highly
value, and especially with the fact that we should not limit ourselves
and open our horizons to new markets.
Looking forward to seeing you soon.
Best Regards,
Imad
Quoting Omar Shallah <oshallah@nissan-sy.com>:
>
> Hi dear Imad,
>
> Thank you for sharing sensitive information with me and I really regret
> you're facing such challenges even in your businesses outside Syria. The one
> thing I'm confident about is that it's not really inconvenient to be stuck
> in Dubai, and that's for one good reason :-)
>
> Take your time to solve any priority issues, I totally understand. Whenever
> you have a clear picture about your schedule, let me know to fix our
> meetings (us together and with Noha) and to plan our business trips
> schedule.
>
> About the ECCI trip to Erbil, frankly speaking, I'm a little confused
> whether to go for it and get it finished or to wait for the end of the
> month. I would definitely want you to be there for the value you bring (not
> to mention the great company) but again I'm afraid we get gradually
> disconnected from this project that might eventually be fruitful and much
> needed for the dark days ahead!
> So I will address this point in the second email with Noha to come up with a
> final decision.
>
> About the meeting with Wadie, we should definitely reschedule it till when
> you're available. I will call him again this afternoon to really test his
> seriousness so that we don't spend our energy and efforts on a dead end; and
> keep our quite-limited resources on more serious opportunities that can
> materialize.
>
> It's good to hear from the training guys. I guess the feedback on the
> profitability was much expected. This is why we should make sure that if
> materialized, this project should not involve any overheads (and leverage on
> the alliance with the local institutions, the CB and Stock Exchange to
> provide facility and office spaces) to just match a direct expense with its
> respective revenues.
>
> About our collaboration and despite the very tough situation, I too,
> strongly cherish it and look forward to see it materializing in something
> worthy and valuable. I guess we gave it a first shot (Erbil with Noha and
> Erbil with Wadie) and there is no wrong in prudently giving those two
> opportunities enough thoughts and reflections before we engage financially.
> Let's see if they can materialize.
> On the other hand let's not limit ourselves and really open our horizons and
> perspectives to new markets, new ideas and new sectors that can relate to
> our shared experiences and joint resources and most importantly the current
> turbulence in the whole region that shall certainly offer opportunities of
> different types.
>
> While waiting for your response, take good care for now, enjoy Dubai and see
> you next week!
>
> Omar
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: i.alfadel@alfadelgroup.com [mailto:i.alfadel@alfadelgroup.com]
> Sent: 2012-01-24 15:43
> To: Omar Shallah
> Subject: Re: meeting
>
> Dear Omar,
>
> I hope all is well on your side.
>
> we did unfortunately miss our coffee, I got caught with the new MFI task.
>
> I am currently in Dubai as you know in order to switch my residence from one
> company to another in order to make it more sustainable and I am also
> renting an apartment. Generation Alfa is starting to face some concerns
> coming from Swiss Banks because of the sanctions on Syria so I am taking the
> necessary measures to protect my business, luckily our operation has not
> been affected in any kind of way.
>
> My new residence was supposed to come out this week and I made plans to stay
> here for a full week (I'll be back on Friday to Damascus), yet I was
> informed this morning that I will have to be back here either next week or
> the one after for another full week in order to obtain it as I will have to
> keep my passport with the local authorities for a full week.
>
> Next week, i have a board meeting for the MFI and I have another meeting of
> which I cannot decide the time, I am waiting to come back to be only then
> informed about the date and time of the meeting. This will not allow me to
> make it back here next week, which means that I may be forced to make it
> back to dubai the week starting on the 5th of February until the 10th. I
> apologize for this but I cannot further delay matters for Generation Alfa,
> because we faced for the first time in the history of the company some
> scrutiny from one Swiss bank (luckily we have agreements with 10s of banks
> that know us and fully trust us and are making sure that no bank rejects our
> request to work with them) and I have to resolve the matter. This is of
> course all confidential.
>
> Right after Dubai I will have to be in Geneva for a week until the 19th and
> will be able to travel again on the 21st.
>
> In case our trip can wait until the 21st, then I will gladly book the time
> now, but if not I will have to apologize from making it. I can gladly send
> Iyad for the presentation and can be with you through a conference call.
> Alternatively, we can make this trip dedicated to what we will be offering
> with Noha and then the meeting with Wadie can be postponed.
>
> Concerning the training, the French company unfortunately never got back to
> me. I emailed Philippe Gali and asked him to email the French gentleman, but
> got no reaction from him. As for the British gentleman, I met with him here
> in Dubai, and he promised that he can deliver. Yet at the same time his
> financial institution is in trouble and asked me to partner with him.
> Although I'm not interested, I did not say "no"
> in order not to loose him. He sent me all the documentation about his
> company in order for me to study them. I will be sending him an email in the
> coming day or two to ask him that we split the training opportunity from his
> company. I don't think he will mind and he can be very helpful. That being
> said, I must say that he commented that there's never much money to be made
> out of training and wondered why we are bothering with it. I told him that
> it's a friendly way of penetrating the Iraqi financial industry.
>
> I am very sorry Omar for the timing of the trip. You know very well that we
> are living in a very volatile and difficult times, I have been lucky to have
> an operation outside of Syria, and I am making all the effort to insure that
> it's not affected in any kind of way. I thank you for your understanding,
> and remain fully supportive and extreemly interested in building something
> strong with you.
>
> Best Regards,
> Imad
>
> Quoting Omar Shallah <oshallah@nissan-sy.com>:
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi dear Imad,
>>
>>
>>
>> We missed our planned coffee last week. Hope you have a safe trip!
>>
>> We still haven't received a confirmation from the Chamber of Erbil
>> regarding our meeting on Feb 6th but I will try to get in touch with
>> them today to confirm that.
>>
>> I was talking to Noha the other day and agreed that we should have a
>> refresh meeting when you're back. Let me know how is your schedule
>> doing for next week.
>>
>>
>>
>> Wadie called me and informed me that he is discussing the presentation
>> with Dr. Faleh and that he should be certainly back with feedback
>> before our trip in Feb.
>>
>>
>>
>> I assume we still haven't got any feedback form the training
>> institutes in France and UK. Right?
>>
>>
>>
>> We will sure keep in touch to update all the points.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sincere regards to your father,
>>
>>
>>
>> Omar
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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