Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan, Mr. Murat Nurtleu, who is leading a Ministerial delegation on an official visit to Pakistan, called on Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, at the Prime Minister House this afternoon.
While welcoming the Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister on his first visit to Pakistan, the Prime Minister conveyed his warm wishes for President Kassym Jomart-Tokayev, whom he had recently met in China. He said that Pakistan and Kazakhstan enjoyed strong fraternal relations, and there was a mutual desire on both sides to further strengthen bilateral cooperation across multiple areas of shared interest.
The Prime Minister expressed Pakistan’s keen desire in enhancing bilateral trade, investment, connectivity (through air, rail and road) and people-to-people exchanges with Kazakhstan. He indicated that Pakistan was attaching great importance to the visit of the Kazakh President and offered to send a delegation to Astana in order to finalize the various MoUs and agreements under consideration. The two sides have been in regular discussion over the past several months and are expected to ink key MoUs and agreements during the Kazakh President’s visit later this year.
The Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister thanked the Prime Minister for the warmth and hospitality extended to him and briefed him on his detailed discussions with Deputy Prime Minister & Foreign Minister Sen. Mohammad Ishaq Dar earlier in the day. He emphasized that the upcoming visit of President Tokayev to Islamabad would be historic and successful, and it would open a new and exciting chapter in Pakistan-Kazakhstan ties.
Deputy Prime Minister & Foreign Minister, Minister for Communications, Minister for Economic Affairs, Minister for Railways, Advisor to the Prime Minister, SAPM Tariq Fatemi and Foreign Secretary also attended the meeting.
