Song Tao Meets with Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan
 ( 2018.10.14 )

Islamabad, October 14th—Song Tao, Minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee (IDCPC), met here today with Sadiq Sanjrani, Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan.

Song conveyed to Sanjrani the warm greetings from Li Zhanshu, Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, and Wang Yang, Chairman of the National Committee of the CPPCC. Song said that China and Pakistan are good friends, good neighbors, good partners and good brothers. The cooperation under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative has achieved positive results and brought tangible benefits to the two peoples. During your visit to China this August, the representatives of the Senate of the various parties visited the IDCPC, which fully reflected the great importance attached to the inter-party exchanges between China and Pakistan. The Chinese side is willing to work with the Pakistani side to strengthen inter-party exchanges and cooperation between China and Pakistan, deepen the consensus of the Pakistani parties on friendship between the two countries, and lead the continuous development of China-Pakistan all-weather strategic cooperative partnership.

Sanjrani asked Song to convey his best wishes to Chairman Li Zhanshu and Chairman Wang Yang. Sanjrani said that friendship with China is an established national policy of Pakistan. The Pakistani side has always highly valued Pakistan-China friendship. The political parties of the Pakistani Senate have a high degree of consensus on developing friendly relations with the CPC. They are willing to maintain close communication with the IDCPC, promote exchanges between political parties of the two countries, and consolidate the political foundation for building the Pakistan-China Economic Corridor and inheriting the everlasting friendship between the two countries.

After the meeting, the two sides also planted the China-Pakistan friendship tree together.

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