Partnership with China to remain Pakistan's top foreign policy in 2021.

Building firm ties, in terms of friendship and enhanced partnership with iron brother China will remain top priority of Pakistan's foreign policy in the year 2021, says the leading diplomat of country.

Speaking to media in a briefing, Shah Mehmood Qureshi highlighted that iron brother China has been 'a permanent special part' of Pakistan's foreign policy.

'China is our great friend. We already have very close ties but we will try to make it even more fruitful in 2021. China is always on our top priorities list. This trend will never change. Every year, we (Pakistan and China) will only enhance cooperation,' he said.

According to the sources, the Foreign Minister (FM) said, during the last decades, Pakistan and China had enhanced firm ties mutually in grounds of not only diplomacy, strategy but also in the business sector.

'We are already cooperating in all sectors. In 2021, we will try to enhance trade relations and try to complete the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects on time,' he added further.

FM said the whole country was united on enhancing Pakistan-China relations. 'On China (ties), the whole country is one unit. There is never any question about it. All parties have the same point of view and all of them want to see the two Iron Brothers grow together,' he conveyed.

In a couple of recent years, Pakistan-China ties witnessed a qualitative transformation as the bilateral ties expanded from defence to the economic sphere.

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