Bilateral Cooperation between Pakistan and the Russian Federation.

Pakistan is an important partner of Russia, which significance is determined by its role in regional politics, its influence in the Muslim world and its geostrategic position. Both countries enjoy cordial relationship and our political dialogue increasingly intensifies. The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, met his counterpart the then President of Pakistan, Mamnoon Hussain, on the sidelines of the SCO Council of Heads of State meeting in Qingdao on June 10, 2018. They discussed matters of mutual interest including bilateral, contemporary regional and global issues. The Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, had a very good meeting with the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, on the sidelines of of the China International Import Expo, in Shanghai on November 5, 2018. The meeting took place in a cordial and friendly atmosphere. The two Prime Ministers expressed satisfaction on the upward trajectory of the bilateral relations.

The Russian-Pakistani parliamentary contacts were given strong impetus during the official visit of the Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Vyacheslav Volodin, to Islamabad where he participated in the Joint Meeting of the Speakers of Parliaments of Afghanistan, China, Iran, Pakistan, Russia and Turkey on challenges of terrorism and inter-regional connectivity on December 24-25, 2017. Last year on December 7-8 Vyacheslav Volodin met the Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan, Asad Qaiser, on the sidelines of the Second Conference of the Speakers of the said six countries on counter-terrorism and strengthening regional cooperation in Tehran. The Deputy Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, Saleem Mandviwalla, participated in the International Conference "The Role of Parliaments in Today's World. The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation - 25 Years of Multi-Vector Development", which was held in Moscow on December 10, 2018.

We maintain dialogue with our Pakistani partners on a wide range of issues of regional and international agenda through relevant consultative mechanisms between the Foreign Ministries of the two countries. The recent past years also saw intensification of our military interaction both in the form of the exchange of defence delegations and the participation in various conferences as well as the joint anti-piratic naval exercise "The Arabian Monsoon" and the anti-terrorist land exercise...

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