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Summary President Zardari described China as Pakistans closest friend and a strategic partner.
President Asif Ali Zardari and Chinese Executive Vice Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday agreed to further bolster the existing close and multi-faceted strategic ties between the two countries through enhanced cooperation in diverse fields, with particular focus on trade, energy, communication, infrastructure development and agriculture sectors.President Zardari and China’s Executive Vice Premier, who met on the eve of first China-Eurasia Expo, discussed in detail the whole range of bilateral relations as well as ways and means to further strengthen these ties, also exchanged views on regional and international issues of mutual interest.Presidential spokesmen Farhatullah Babar told media persons that the Chinese Executive Vice Premier appreciated President Zardari’s gesture of bringing with him the chief minister of Gilgit Baltistan and welcomed him to the meeting.President Zardari described China as Pakistan’s closest friend and a strategic partner as high level of trust existed between the leadership and people of the two countries.He said that the political parties, state institutions and people of Pakistan considered China as the lifeline for their country.The president recalled the visit of Premier Wen Jiabao to Pakistan in December 2010 as a heartwarming event and expressed satisfaction over the progress in Pakistan-China political, defence, security and economic co-operation, with determination to take it to ‘new heights’.
