KARACHI, Oct 21: VDMA Textile Machinery Association will hold a German textile machinery symposium for the leading textile mills in Pakistan in May 2003.

This was announced by Heinrich Trutschler, president of VDMA Textile Machinery Association, at the VDMA headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany.

According to a press release, he explained the symposium in Pakistan will be a high profile event supported by the German Ministry of Economics and Technology.

The decision to go to Pakistan is strongly supported by both the Pakistan and German governments — this was confirmed in bilateral talks on ministerial level held last August in the German capital Berlin.

The Pakistan and German governments are looking forward to strengthening the Pakistani-German trade relations. On the Pakistani side hopes are high that with German technology the textile industry will be prepared for quota free era beginning from January 1, 2005. The VDMA Textile Machinery Association represents 90 per cent of German textile machinery manufacturers.