BEIJING:China would continue to work with the new Pakistani administrationled by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to have close communication atdifferent levels and add new impetus to bilateral cooperation between twoall-weather friends and strategic cooperative partners, Chinese foreignministry spokesperson said on Thursday.
“We appreciate the positive comments by PM Shahbaz regarding China-PakistanEconomic Cooperation (CPEC) cooperation,” Zhao Lijian said in his regularbriefing while commenting on a meeting between PM Shehbaz Sharif and PangChunxue, charge d’ affairs of the Chinese Embassy in Pakistan held inIslamabad.
During meeting, PM Shehbaz Sharif told the Charge d’ Affairs thatPakistan’s new government attached great importance to strengtheningrelations between Pakistan and China and was ready to further strengthenbilateral cooperation in agriculture, science and technology, education andpoverty alleviation and push forward the construction of the CPEC withgreater vigor and efficiency to better benefit the two countries and thetwo peoples.
The spokesperson said that China and Pakistan were all weather strategiccooperation partners and iron clad brothers, and added, “We will as alwaysput Pakistan as a priority of our neighbourhood diplomacy and to supportits efforts to realise revitalisation.”
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He said that the Chinese side would continue to work with the new Pakistaniadministration to have close communication at different levels and add newimpetus into our bilateral cooperation and to build CPEC with high standardin a sustained manner to benefit the people and a build a closer communitywith a shared future.
Shehbaz Sharif, President of PML (N) and a key leader of PakistanDemocratic Movement (PDM), was sworn in as the 23rd prime minister ofPakistan last week after securing 174 votes from the 342-seat NationalAssembly, officially taking over from former Prime Minister Imran Khan, wholost a no-confidence vote in the lower house of the parliament.
