Zardari talks of transit trade
22 May 2012 5:31 AM GMT
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai has agreed to extend the transit trade agreement between the two countries to the Central Asia Republics.
'Once the decision has been taken, modalities for extending the transit trade to Central Asia will be worked out by the officials from two sides,' the Pak President's spokesperson, Farhatullah Babar, said after the meeting held in Chicago on the sidelines of the NATO Summit on Sunday.
During the meeting that lasted for nearly 45 minutes, Zardari also emphasised on long term regional economic engagement and stressed that projects like Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline, CASA-1000, Reconstruction Opportunity Zones (RoZs) and rail and road connectivity could change the destiny of the region, calling also for concerted efforts to implement these projects.
Zardari said that Pakistan would support every effort for peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan including the Qatar process as long as they were acceptable to Afghans, Babar said.
'Once the decision has been taken, modalities for extending the transit trade to Central Asia will be worked out by the officials from two sides,' the Pak President's spokesperson, Farhatullah Babar, said after the meeting held in Chicago on the sidelines of the NATO Summit on Sunday.
During the meeting that lasted for nearly 45 minutes, Zardari also emphasised on long term regional economic engagement and stressed that projects like Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline, CASA-1000, Reconstruction Opportunity Zones (RoZs) and rail and road connectivity could change the destiny of the region, calling also for concerted efforts to implement these projects.
Zardari said that Pakistan would support every effort for peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan including the Qatar process as long as they were acceptable to Afghans, Babar said.
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