ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China have agreed to proceed to deepen cooperation in numerous fields and speed up efforts to construct a fair nearer Pakistan-China neighborhood with a shared future within the new period.
“The 2 sides famous that in a remodeling and turbulent world the place main modifications are unfolding at a quicker tempo, the Pakistan-China relationship is of strategic significance, and any try to disrupt or undermine Pakistan-China cooperation is sure to fail. Pakistan and China take pleasure in an all-level, cross-board and high-quality relationship. The Chinese language facet reiterated that the China-Pakistan relationship is a precedence in its international relations. The Pakistani facet underscored that the Pakistan-China relationship is the cornerstone of its international coverage whereas the Chinese language facet highlighted that the China-Pakistan relationship is of particular significance in China’s international coverage,” a joint assertion between the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Individuals’s Republic of China, shared by Overseas Workplace Spokesperson on Tuesday, stated.
Pakistan and China reaffirmed their dedication to an upgraded model of China Pakistan Financial Hall (CPEC) by collectively constructing a development hall, a livelihood-enhancing hall, an innovation hall, a inexperienced hall and an open hall, and growing CPEC into an indication challenge of high-quality Belt and Highway cooperation.
“The 2 sides agreed to additional synergize China’s eight main steps for supporting Belt and Highway cooperation with Pakistan’s 5Es framework primarily based on Exports, E-Pakistan, Setting, Vitality, and Fairness & Empowerment.”
The Pakistani facet positively assessed the go to by the Chinese language working workforce on financial cooperation, and expressed its willingness to proceed experience-sharing on improvement in numerous areas with the Chinese language facet.
On the invitation of Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, Chinese language Premier Li Qiang paid an official go to to Pakistan from October 14 to 17.
The 2 sides underscored that because the institution of diplomatic ties, Pakistan-China relations have withstood the take a look at of instances and have remained rock-solid.
Since President Xi Jinping’s historic state go to to Pakistan in 2015, the All-Climate Strategic Cooperative Partnership between the 2 international locations has made vital progress.
After Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s profitable official go to to China in June 2024, the 2 international locations have loved even stronger political mutual belief, extra vibrant cooperation, and nearer strategic coordination. Either side expressed satisfaction with the momentum of Pakistan-China relations and agreed to additional strengthen the ironclad friendship and cooperation between the 2 international locations.
The Pakistani facet extremely commends and firmly helps main visions and propositions put forth by President Xi Jinping, comparable to fostering a neighborhood with a shared future for mankind, the Belt and Highway Initiative, the International Improvement Initiative, the International Safety Initiative, and the International Civilization Initiative. Either side advocate for an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally helpful and inclusive financial globalization, and are dedicated to working along with all international locations all over the world for a vivid way forward for peace, safety, prosperity and progress.
The 2 sides agreed to keep up the momentum of exchanges beneath the strategic steering of the highest leaders for the event of bilateral relations. They agreed to additional strengthen exchanges and cooperation in any respect ranges and throughout numerous fields between governments, legislative our bodies and political events.
The Pakistani facet expressed heat congratulations on the seventy fifth anniversary of the founding of the Individuals’s Republic of China and the profitable conclusion of the Third Plenary Session of the twentieth Central Committee of the Communist Occasion of China and highlighted that China’s endeavour to additional deepen reform comprehensively and advance high-standard opening up will carry new improvement alternatives for Pakistan and all different international locations all over the world. The Chinese language facet commends the brand new achievements attained by Pakistan in financial reform and improvement beneath the management of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. The 2 sides reaffirmed their agency help to one another in independently selecting a improvement path that fits their respective nationwide realities and agreed to strengthen exchanges of governance expertise and foster higher synergy between their improvement methods.
The 2 sides reaffirmed their unyielding help for one another on the problems regarding their respective core pursuits and main considerations.
Either side confused that the authority of the U.N. Basic Meeting Decision 2758 brooks no query or problem. The Pakistani facet reaffirmed its agency dedication to the one-China precept, and reiterated that Taiwan is an inalienable a part of the territory of the Individuals’s Republic of China and that Pakistan firmly helps all efforts made by China to realize nationwide reunification, firmly opposes any type of “Taiwan independence,” and can firmly help China on points regarding Xinjiang, Xizang, Hong Kong and the South China Sea. The Chinese language facet reiterated its unwavering help for Pakistan in defending nationwide sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity, and its help for Pakistan’s efforts to safeguard nationwide safety, stability, improvement and prosperity.
Following the necessary widespread understanding between leaders of the 2 international locations, the 2 sides reaffirmed their readiness to advance the upgradation of ML-1, and agreed to construct the Karachi-Hyderabad part in step with the modality of “implementing in a phased method.” The 2 sides will work collectively to refine and optimize the development plan of the Karachi-Hyderabad part and formulate financing and implementation plans which might be possible and sustainable on the earliest.
The 2 sides agreed to actively search monetary help for the Karakoram Freeway (Raikot-Thakot) realignment challenge beneath the phrases of the Framework Settlement of the challenge.
In the meantime, the 2 sides agreed to proceed harnessing the Intergovernmental Joint Technical Working Group for the Karakoram Freeway (Raikot-Thakot) realignment challenge and see to it that it supplies technical steering throughout your complete means of implementation, to facilitate the challenge’s early execution.
Recognizing the importance of the Gwadar Port as a key hub for cross-regional connectivity, the 2 sides reaffirmed their readiness to hurry up the event of the auxiliary infrastructure of the Gwadar Port, to steadily appeal to extra cargo shipments to the port, to discover a answer to insufficient water and energy provide at an early date, to speed up the event of the port’s industrial zone, and to solidly improve connectivity between the port and different components of Pakistan. Throughout the go to, leaders of either side attended the completion ceremony of the New Gwadar Worldwide Airport.
The 2 sides agreed to additional strengthen industrial cooperation suited to native situations, and promote worldwide cooperation on industrial and provide chains.
The Chinese language facet reiterated its help for Chinese language firms to spend money on Pakistan’s Particular Financial Zones in step with the market and industrial rules.
The Pakistani facet reiterated its dedication to bettering its enterprise surroundings and offering a beneficial coverage framework for Chinese language funding. Either side welcome the lively participation of third events in CPEC cooperation.
The 2 sides reaffirmed their willingness to actively encourage Chinese language firms to interact in funding and cooperation in Pakistan’s mining business, and collectively discover the planning of mining industrial parks, together with downstream mineral processing.
The 2 sides agreed to additional strengthen their sensible cooperation in areas comparable to crop cultivation, animal husbandry, epidemic prevention and management for vegetation and animals, agricultural mechanization, agricultural technical change, and capability constructing for the modernization & resilience of Pakistan’s agriculture. The 2 sides agreed to proceed to advertise agricultural cooperation between China’s Xinjiang and Pakistan.
The 2 sides positively assessed the achievements of Pakistan-China power cooperation and agreed to proceed to advertise the CPEC power cooperation in a sensible, prudent and orderly method.
The 2 sides will collectively discover options for particular points primarily based on scientific analysis and pleasant session. The 2 sides agreed to strengthen skilled exchanges on bettering the effectivity and administration of the ability system of Pakistan.
The 2 sides agreed to proceed advancing sensible cooperation in such areas as primary geological survey, useful resource potential analysis, offshore oil and gasoline assets exploration, and pure gasoline hydrates, finishing up exchanges and coaching on geological know-how, and work towards conducting a brand new spherical of Pakistan-China joint survey of marine geology. The 2 sides agreed to conduct additional session on selling commerce liberalisation beneath the framework of the Part-II of the China-Pakistan Free Commerce Settlement, and actively discover the doable bilateral concessional preparations primarily based on the spirit of mutual profit and win-win cooperation.
The Chinese language facet welcomed Pakistani enterprises to make full use of platforms such because the China Worldwide Import Expo to broaden bilateral commerce and help Pakistan in enhancing its exports to China.
The Pakistani facet welcomed Chinese language enterprises to broaden funding in precedence sectors for enhancing export-oriented industries as recognized by Pakistan.
The 2 sides agreed to facilitate deeper exchanges and cooperation between enterprise communities of the 2 international locations.
The Pakistani facet expressed excessive appreciation for China’s helpful help for the fiscal and monetary stability of Pakistan.
The 2 sides spoke extremely of the extension of the China-Pakistan Bilateral Foreign money Swap Association, and agreed to additional strengthen bilateral cooperation within the monetary and banking sectors, and help one another inside regional and worldwide multilateral monetary platforms.
The Chinese language facet expressed willingness to proceed supporting Pakistan in bettering the well-being of its individuals, aiming to make sure that improvement advantages attain all areas and communities.
The Pakistani facet expressed its appreciation for China’s help, significantly in offering photo voltaic lighting tools and well being kits in addition to contributing to the event of key initiatives such because the China-Pakistan Friendship Hospital, the China-Pakistan Technical and Vocational Institute, and the desalination plant in Gwadar.
Either side agreed to strengthen their cooperation beneath the framework of the CPEC Working Group on Socio-Financial Cooperation, significantly in areas like healthcare, agriculture, schooling, local weather response, and catastrophe prevention, whereas persevering with to advertise initiatives that enhance individuals’s livelihoods.
The Chinese language facet spoke extremely of Pakistan’s unremitting efforts and great sacrifices in combating terrorism, and its contributions to sustaining worldwide peace and safety.
The 2 sides reiterated their dedication to combating terrorism in all its kinds and manifestations with a zero-tolerance angle, and agreed to additional strengthen bilateral and multilateral cooperation in counterterrorism, and collectively oppose the politicization and instrumentalization of counterterrorism. The 2 sides expressed readiness to work with the worldwide neighborhood to strengthen multilateral counter-terrorism cooperation inside frameworks such because the U.N. and the SCO.
The Pakistani facet strongly condemned the terrorist assault on the car of Chinese language personnel engaged on the Dasu Hydropower Challenge in Pakistan on March 26, 2024, and the terrorist assault on the Chinese language convoy of the Port Qasim Energy Plant on October 6, 2024, and pledged to seek out out the entire reality of the above incidents, and search out and convey to justice all of the perpetrators.
The Pakistani facet emphasised its agency and loyal dedication to additional enhancing safety enter and coordination, additional strengthening safety measures, and making complete efforts to make sure the security and safety of Chinese language personnel, initiatives and establishments in Pakistan.
The 2 sides underscored that strategic defence and safety cooperation between Pakistan and China performs an irreplaceable and demanding position in sustaining peace, stability and strategic stability within the area.
The 2 sides expressed satisfaction that the 2 militaries have lengthy loved a high-level of mutual belief, high-level cooperation, and high-level coordination. The 2 sides agreed to keep up the momentum of high-level military-to-military visits and exchanges and to repeatedly elevate cooperation in areas of joint coaching, workouts and navy know-how.
The 2 sides reaffirmed their dedication to collectively upholding the worldwide system with the U.N. at its core, the worldwide order primarily based on worldwide regulation, and the fundamental norms governing worldwide relations underpinned by the needs and rules of the U.N. Constitution.
The 2 sides will proceed to uphold the core values and primary rules of the World Commerce Group, oppose decoupling and disrupting provide chains, and firmly resist unilateralism and protectionism.
The 2 sides reaffirmed the significance of sustaining peace and stability in South Asia and the necessity for decision of all excellent disputes, and their opposition to any unilateral motion.
The Pakistani facet briefed the Chinese language facet on the most recent developments of the scenario in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Chinese language facet reiterated that the Jammu and Kashmir dispute is left over from historical past, and needs to be correctly and peacefully resolved in accordance with the UN Constitution, related UN Safety Council resolutions and bilateral agreements.
The 2 sides agreed to strengthen communication and coordination on the difficulty of Afghanistan.
Either side name for concerted efforts of the worldwide neighborhood to encourage the Interim Afghan Authorities to construct an inclusive political framework, undertake reasonable insurance policies and pursue good-neighbourliness.
In addition they known as for strengthening counter-terrorism cooperation at bilateral and multilateral ranges to help Afghanistan in taking complete measures to eradicate terrorism and known as on the Interim Afghan Authorities to take seen and verifiable actions to dismantle and eradicate all terrorist teams primarily based in Afghanistan which proceed to pose a severe menace to regional and world safety, and to forestall using Afghan territory towards its neighbours, the area, and past.
The 2 sides additionally agreed to play a constructive position in serving to Afghanistan obtain secure improvement and combine into the worldwide neighborhood.