ICC Website Now Available in Arabic

In its first official venture outside the English language, the ICC website is now available in Arabic. All of the ICC news stories, press releases, and links to ICC products and services are now more easily accessible to the organization?s growing Arab world constituency.

The Arabic version of the ICC website - www.iccarab.org - is translated and maintained in its entirety by the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (www.tagi.com).

?ICC?s website goes from strength to strength,? said ICC Secretary General, Maria Livanos Cattaui, ?Now we can ensure that the good work and vital services of the world business organization are more readily accessible to our Arabic-speaking members.?

ICC?s membership in Arab countries continues to grow.

During a special ceremony in Dubai last week, ICC United Arab Emirates joined a growing list of Arab countries with ICC national committees. Local guardian of the ICC Arabic website, the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAGO), already provides a similar translation service for the World Trade Organization?s official website.

TAGO Chairman, and chair of ICC?s Commission on E-Business, IT, and Telecoms, Mr. Talal Abu Ghazaleh said his company has undertaken to translate the ICC website into Arabic ?to spread the good work of ICC.? ?There are so many ICC products and services which are not nearly as well known in the Arabic-speaking world as they should be,? he said. ?By raising the profile of ICC in this part of the world, we hope to spread the benefits of ICC membership to as many companies in the world as possible.?

The ICC Arabic website will be regularly updated to reflect the ever changing content of ICC?s official English-language website.