PM Shehbaz Sharif had a cordial and substantive meeting with the Prime Minister of Russian Federation, Mr. Mikhail Mishustin, at the Prime Minister’s House, at the margins of the 23rd SCO CHG meeting.
The Prime Ministers discussed the entire spectrum of bilateral cooperation and noted the positive momentum in Pakistan-Russia relations over the last two decades. They agreed to pursue robust dialogue and cooperation in the areas of trade, industry, energy, connectivity, science, technology and education.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif fondly recalled his first foreign visit to Moscow, expressing a desire to transform these warm memories into a lasting friendship with Russia. He reaffirmed Pakistan’s commitment to strengthening political, economic, and defense ties with the Russian Federation. Both sides agreed to enhance cooperation at multilateral forums, including the United Nations and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. He also thanked Russia for supporting Pakistan’s BRICS membership bid, marking a step toward deeper collaboration on the global stage.
The Prime Minister recalled his productive meeting with the Russian President Vladimir Putin in July this year in Astana during the course of which they had agreed to meaningful enhancement of relations between the two countries. He also emphasized on the need of direct flights between Russia and Pakistan for enhanced connectivity between the two countries.
Russian Federation Embassy in Pakistan share the Press Release on social media platform on X, written that the Russian Prime Minister thanked Pakistani Prime Minister for his “warmest greetings”, noting that this was his first visit to Pakistan as Prime Minister.
Russian PM Mikhail Mishustin Said that the Relations between Russia and Pakistan are based on the principles of friendship and mutual respect. The two countries are striving to take cooperation to a higher level.
In the Press Release, Russian Embassy written that the Government of Russia is focused on increasing the trade and economic cooperation with Pakistan. They had also written that the mutual trade turnover increased by almost 13% and exceeded 57 billion rubles From January 2014 to August 2024.
Russian PM said that Russia believes that our common task is to create favorable conditions for the promotion of trade, mutual investment, and the launch of new promising projects in energy, industry, agriculture, infrastructure construction, logistics and transport.
Mikhail Mishustin brief that Russia has increased its energy supplies to Pakistan. Russian companies are also ready to facilitate the development of Pakistan’s gas industry. Moreover, Russia believes that Pakistan has great transit potential due to its favorable geographical location.
The first Russia-Pakistan Trade & Investment Forum, which was held in Moscow on October 1, boosted economic cooperation. Russian PM proposed to organize the second forum in Pakistan.
Embassy’s Press Release Said, Russia attaches special importance to the development of bilateral humanitarian cooperation.
The two Prime Ministers agreed to maintain close cooperation on all areas of mutual interest. Both leaders also agreed on lingual exchanges among the two countries to enhance people to people relations and an increased cooperation among the banking sectors of the two countries to facilitate trade and investment.
