Pakistan for long-term ties with Russia

nation.com.pk ^ | March 01, 2013

[Tailgunner Joe]

Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf has said that there is a national consensus in Pakistan on building strong relationship with the Russian Federation and government attaches great importance to its relations with Russia.

The prime minister made these remarks while welcoming a delegation of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation led by Ms Valentina Matvienko, Chairperson of the Council at Prime Minister House on Thursday. Russian Ambassador in Pakistan Andrey Bundnik also accompanied the chairperson.

Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf said Russia was a source of peace and stability at both regional and global level and its growing power was a positive development for a multi-polar world of the present day.

The prime minister further said that there had been a visible expansion in the bilateral relations as well as economic cooperation between the two countries and Pakistan greatly valued Russia’s interest to invest in the energy sector of Pakistan. He added that there was a vast potential for increasing the bilateral trade further.

“There is a national consensus in Pakistan on building strong relationship with the Russian Federation and we attach great importance to our relations with Russia. Both the countries have initiated a process of building a broad-based long-term partnership. We greatly value the support and assistance of Russian Federation in the war against terrorism,” said the prime minister.

Ms Valentina Matvienko thanked the prime minister for meeting the delegation and said that Pakistan was an important partner of Russia and played a significant role in international relations.

She added that the exchange of visits of the parliamentary delegations of both the countries would help in further strengthening the bilateral relations. She said that some 2,000 Pakistani students had graduated from Russian universities and Russia would welcome more students from Pakistan.

[doc1019]

Loser backing a loser, financed my the US. Sounds like a winner. /s

[Boiler Plate]

Let them suck the Ruskies dry.

[Forgotten Amendments]

McCain & Graham calling this a crisis in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

[familyop]

Looks like Pakistan has been moving in with the SCO for a long time (e.g., weapons from China over the years).

[Eric in the Ozarks]

How many billions have we poured into this sh*thole ?

[American Constitutionalist]

Does this really surprize anyone ?

So while the US government is fighting each other to get it's finaicial act together America's enemies play a strategic chess game right in front of our noses.

[American Constitutionalist]

" How many billions have we poured into this sh*thole ? "


Just goes to prove you can't buy your way out of a problem.
I guess the Pakstanies are saying to America " Suckers ! "

Paki government to the American government " you pay us many pretty $$ Billions, we be your friend, trust us "

[familyop]

Too many, IMO. I wonder if those golf courses for our VIPs of government waste are still maintained in Pak?

[GOPJ]

The Russians can have ‘em. Really - great friends... we'll miss ‘em for sure. Russians enjoyed Afghanistan - this will be fun like that too.

[Robert357]

Ok, let's snuggle up to India and dump Pakistan. We have much more in common and direct economic trade with India. It has historically been a shame that Russia and India were close and we were the historic Pakistan partner.