Russia considers Pakistan a friend: CG Andrey Fedorov.

KARACHI -- The Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Karachi extends every possible support to Pakistani to strengthen bilateral contacts and cooperation to the benefit of both countries. For increasing the bilateral volume, the two countries have to broaden the dimension of their economic cooperation. There was big untapped potential in almost every sphere of trade partnership. The bilateral trade was mainly confined to commodities although many other products and services were available to offer to each other, said Consul General of Russian Federation here Andrey V.Fedorov during an interaction with media at the Consulate recently. He said Pakistan could export to Russia surgical instruments, leather, and sports goods. Pakistan had also huge potential in information technologies and pharmaceutical sectors. However, Pakistan was also interested to buy cancer medicine due to its high effectiveness and reasonable price. The Commercial Attaches of both the countries were also working hard to elevate bilateral trade and economic cooperation to a new high level, he said. He said his country was ready to provide all necessary assistance to execute the Pakistan Stream Gas Pipeline project-from Karachi to Lahore.

Russian envoy mentioned that his government was closely...