Islamabad: Pakistan, China, Nepal and Afghanistan agreed on anti-pandemic cooperation and discussed tactics to revive the economy in the post-COVID world.
The first quadripartite assembly of the foreign ministers of Pakistan, Nepal and Afghanistan was held in China. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who chaired the video conference, said the 4 countries deserve ties for regional peace and called for cooperation to prevent the cross-border spread of the virus.
Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Khusro Bakhtyar represented Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in the presence of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Afghanistan’s Acting Foreign Minister Mohammed Haneef Atmar and Nepal’s Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali.
The Chinese chancellor said the 4 countries deserve to reject the politicization or stigmatization of the virus and called for efforts to “strengthen coordination in epidemic prevention and promote cooperation in vaccine research as well as economic recovery.”
Ministers from Pakistan, Nepal and Afghanistan expressed their preference for deepening cooperation with China to combat COVID-19 and also to ensure the flow of industry and shipping corridors, facilitate industry and industry relations, and build a “Health Silk Road” to improve physical care infrastructure and inspire the exchange of medical and post-pandemic goods and practices.
Minister Bakhtyar also called for “allowing foreign fitness experts and without delay extending medical assistance to the inhabitants of Kashmir” in Indian-administered Kashmir.
The chancellors also discussed tactics to expand new spaces for virtual cooperation and connections with the resumption of new assignments. More efforts are needed to explore tactics to synergize the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the Strip and Route Initiative (BRI) and the Trans-Himalaya Multidimensional Connectivity Network to gain mutual advantage and safeguard non-unusual interests. countries. The Pakistani minister is under pressure that CPEC, a flagship bis allocation, can play a vital role in stimulating regional expansion and recovery in the post-COVID-19 period.
Pakistan is responding effectively to the COVID-19 epidemic and is taking every imaginable measure to strengthen the existing fitness system. “The main goal was to save lives and ensure livelihoods,” a Pakistani official said. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has introduced several aid projects to protect livelihoods, adding Pakistan’s Preparedness and Response Plan (PRPP) of $595 million, an $8 billion aid program for the most vulnerable, the Ehsaas Emergency Aid Program, and the Global Debt Initiative to help developing countries. Overcome the economic losses of COVID-19.
In his video message for the conference, Chancellor Qureshi praised the joint initiative of the 4 countries in reaction to the pandemic. “The global network wants unity, solidarity and multilateral cooperation to combat COVID-19, which knows no borders, faith or ethnicity,” he said.
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