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Zardari for greater Sino-Pak interaction
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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ISLAMABAD, Mar 10 (APP): President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday called for greater interaction between the think-tanks and academia of Pakistan and China to further enhance bilateral relations between the two countries. The President stated this during a meeting with Chinese delegation led by ambassador Cai Jinbiao, Vice President of Chinese Peoples Institute of Foreign affairs, who called on him at Aiwan-e-Sadr.
The President hoped that the visit of Chinese Peoples Institute of Foreign affairs (CPIFA) delegation would further augment the people to people contacts between the two countries and enable the Chinese scholars to understand Pakistan and its society. Pakistan plans to send students to China to acquire expertise in different disciplines, which would help boost our friendship from generation to generation, he said.
The President while referring to his previous four visits to China said that Pakistan wanted to learn from the Chinese economic and development miracle and benefit from its expertise in diverse areas of agriculture, education, communications, commerce, energy and industry. He said that the current level of bilateral trade is much below the available potential and urged for jacking it up to $15 billion by 2011.
The delegation thanked the President for meeting them and for the hospitality of the Pakistani people. Lue Zhouhui, Chinese ambassador in Pakistan was also present besides high officials of the Chinese embassy.
The meeting was also attended by Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Foreign minister, Nawabzada Malik Amad Khan, MOS for Foreign Affairs, Salman Faruqui, Secretary General to the President, federal secretaries of Foreign Affairs, interior, defence and other senior government officials.
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