Pak- Kazakhstan bilateral commerce continues to increase annually: Envoy

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Ambassador Yerzhan Kistafin of Kazakhstan to Pakistan has mentioned that the bilateral commerce between Kazakhstan and Pakistan continues to witness regular and sturdy growth annually.

“Interplay between Kazakhstan and Pakistan within the scientific and academic spheres is intensifying, coupled with a rise within the variety of Pakistani college students attending universities in Kazakhstan. Together with a progressive enchancment in bilateral relations within the banking sector,” he mentioned whereas speaking to APP on the event of Kazakhstan’s Republic Day.

The ambassador mentioned that each nations are celebrating the outstanding 30-year friendship, peace, and concord between Kazakhstan and Pakistan.

Kistafin mentioned that through the previous 30 years, the nations have established and bolstered shut relations throughout varied domains, together with political interplay, commerce, economics, tradition, and humanitarian cooperation.

He mentioned that constructive dynamics have develop into evident within the industrial manufacturing sector. “Key components driving commerce, financial, and funding interplay between the 2 nations included conferences of the Intergovernmental Fee,

Enterprise Council, enterprise boards, and reciprocal visits by enterprise delegations,” he added.

He additional mentioned that cooperation within the area of inter-parliamentary interplay, notably on the higher homes of legislative assemblies, is producing substantial curiosity not solely in bilateral relations but additionally in multilateral codecs. The Ambassador expressed confidence that such interplay on the legislative degree would considerably advance the issues mentioned between the 2 governments.

He recalled the frequent conferences between President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif in 2022, which additional strengthened their relationship.

In 2023, on the sidelines of the Belt and Highway Discussion board, a gathering passed off between the President of Kazakhstan and the caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan, Anwaar-Ul Haq Kakar, in Beijing.

“This new contract is anticipated to drive extra incentives for strengthening and increasing bilateral cooperation”.

Kistafin underlined Kazakhstan’s particular concentrate on creating multifaceted cooperation with Pakistan.

He highlighted the elevated depth of interactions between the 2 nations as a result of launch of direct flights through the summer time. This growth, he mentioned, has already led to a surge in enterprise actions, with Pakistani and Kazakh businessmen exploring alternatives for collaboration.

The President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, has constantly emphasised the excessive potential for relations between the 2 nations within the context of creating transit and logistics capabilities.

His annual deal with to the folks of Kazakhstan, titled “Financial Course of a Honest Kazakhstan,” underscores the significance of constructive relations with neighboring nations in South Asia.

This imaginative and prescient concerned the event of an Worldwide Transport Hall alongside the North-South route, offering Kazakhstan with entry to the Arabian Sea by way of Pakistani seaports in Karachi and Gwadar.

This hall, he mentioned, is anticipated to be a cornerstone for bilateral growth. The ambassador mentioned that Kazakhstan and Pakistan share shut or related positions on present international political points. These positions function the muse for efficient interstate interplay inside varied worldwide organizations, together with the UN, OIC, CICA, SCO, and ECO.

He additionally highlighted a big achievement in bilateral relations: the entry of the Kazakh Human Rights Commissioner into the worldwide regional construction, the Asian Ombudsmen Affiliation, with full assist from Pakistan.

Kistafin mentioned that constructing nearer relations between Kazakhstan and Pakistan inside a multilateral format would considerably strengthen the place and function of Central and South Asia on the Eurasian continent.

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