Times of Islamabad

Pakistan China to take crucial decision over CPEC projects

Pakistan China to take crucial decision over CPEC projects

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan and China to take impotent decision over the ChinaPakistan Economic Corridor projects and involvement of third party in it.

Both countries have decided to consider establishment of joint workinggroup in upcoming Joint Cooperation Committee (JCC) next week at Beijingunder CPEC for devising mechanism to grant permission to other countriesinvolvement into different projects.

“The upcoming JCC will consider establishment of new working group forseeking international cooperation for CPEC projects on December 20, 2018 inBeijing,” China’s Ambassador in Pakistan Yao Jing confirmed to The Newsafter addressing PIDE conference here on Friday.

To another query about increasing possibility of size of CPEC projects intoupcoming JCC meeting, the Ambassador said that different projects would beconsidered but there was no need to analyse mutual cooperation in thecontext of figures only.