Press Office

The two sides exchanged views on deepening the Belarusian-Pakistani relations.

The Chairman of the House of Representatives noted that the inter-parliamentary relations were assessed as an important component of the bilateral cooperation in the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Vladimir Andreichenko informed the Pakistani side about the visit of the parliamentary delegation of the Republic of Belarus to Pakistan scheduled in April 2017.

The Chairman of the Senate noted that parliamentary diplomacy played an important role in the development of the bilateral ties.

The sides discussed issues of cooperation in international parliamentary organizations. Mian Raza Rabbani suggested cooperating closely within the framework of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

Considerable attention was paid to the expansion of the legal framework, development of relations in the trade and economic sphere and other areas of mutual interest.

Vladimir Andreichenko stressed that the Belarusian parliamentarians were ready to join the work of the three joint Belarusian-Pakistani intergovernmental commissions on trade-economic, scientific-technical and military-technical cooperation.

Both sides noted that the visit of the Chairman of the Senate of the Parliament of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to the Republic of Belarus was a proof of the positive dynamics of development of mutually beneficial bilateral dialogue.

The meeting was attended by Andrei  Rybak, chairman of the Standing Commission of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus on Industry, Fuel-Energy Complex, Transport and Communication, Sergei Rakhmanov, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus for Foreign Affairs and National Security, Dmitry Goborov, deputy chairman of the Standing Commission of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus on State Building, Local Government and Regulations, head of the working group of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus on cooperation with the Parliament of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Ivan Korzh, deputy chairman of the Standing Commission of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus on International Affairs, as well as Andrei Ermolovich, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.