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  1. haider3
    member

    Pakistani PM to attend SCO summit in Russia
    6 November 2011

    Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani will attend a session of the Council of Heads of Government of Shanghai Cooperation Organization member-states in the Russian city of St Petersburg on Monday, officials said, IRNA reported.

    The Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has invited Gilani to attend the summit, Prime Minister's office announced.

    The session will discuss issues of coordination among member-state to determine further steps aimed at developing trade, economic and humanitarian ties between the SCO member-states, observers and other regional partners, it said.

    Premier Putin also in a letter expressed his willingness to meet Gilani on the occasion of the meeting of SCO Council of Heads of Government at St Petersburg.

    Putin said that he is confident that the forthcoming session will promote the intensification of cooperation between the SCO member-states and Pakistan.

    The SCO, an intergovernmental mutual-security organization, was founded in 2001 in Shanghai by the leaders of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.

    Pakistan has the status of observer along with India, Iran and Mongolia.

    The Pakistani Foreign Ministry said the country is willing to become full member of this forum on account of its immense potential for dealing with common challenges. The Prime Minister will seek support of the member-states for Pakistan's quest to become a SCO member.

    Gilani's visit will also provide an opportunity for exchanging views with Putin, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

    'Pakistan-Russian bilateral relations are characterized by increasing mutual trust and commonality of interests. There is a strong desire on both sides to deepen and expand bilateral cooperation for their mutual benefit,' it said.

    'The SCO is an important regional security organization whose profile and scope of agenda has assumed great importance over the years,' the statement said.

    The SCO deals with issues of common regional concern, including regional trade, connectivity, energy cooperation, security-related collaboration, drug trafficking as well as extremism and terrorism.

    http://en.trend.az/regions/world/ocountries/1954386.html

    Posted 6 months ago on 07 Nov 2011 12:05 #

  2. semirza
    Moderator

    Mirza Sahib
    Should we depend upon a lacky, or in short the one who stutters, and at time drules or dribbles like a mental retard. I simply do not agree with you that such a retard should represent us. No he shoul not and by all means be escorted to and retained in a 'gora jail' cuz his incestors were so afraid of that they wrote (including Unionists) a joint letter to the ruling brits alledging their loyalty to them.

    Posted 6 months ago on 07 Nov 2011 19:40 #

  3. haider3
    member

    Mirza Sahib, the past is the past, that's one thing. As to who should represent Pakistan, we don't get a choice for the moment. The important point here is not the person, but the event. It's SCO time once again. I remember last year, we had high hopes of a change in Pakistan's situation vis-à-vis some of its closest allies. Now such hopes have been reawakened. We are seeminly hurtling towards a turning point, Mirza Sahab, now is definitely not the moment to lose either our courage or our patience.

    Posted 6 months ago on 08 Nov 2011 6:23 #

  4. junaid
    Member

    there should be a positive outcome, most importantly in this era of disruption/uni polar behavior. and yet i doubt it if the whole thing ends up into a photo session.

    Posted 6 months ago on 08 Nov 2011 7:10 #

  5. semirza
    Moderator

    Certainly not even close to an able person representing Pakistan abroad.

    Posted 6 months ago on 08 Nov 2011 15:39 #

  6. haider3
    member

    Pakistan seeks full SCO membership - 7.11.11

    ST PETERSBURG (Russia): Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani arrived here on Sunday in a bid to seek full membership of the important regional security grouping of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).

    The prime minister is accompanied by Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Dr Asim Hussain, Board of Investment’s Chairman Saleem Mandviwala and Senator Sughra Imam.

    Mr Gilani will address the 10th SCO summit on Monday and seek Pakistan’s full membership of the organisation, whose profile and scope have assumed great importance with the presence of China, Russia and other Central Asian states as strong regional partners.

    The prime minister is scheduled to hold separate meetings with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, who are attending the summit along with other heads of governments and representatives of member and observer states.

    Pakistan holds the observer status, along with Mongolia, India and Iran, whereas Sri Lanka and Belarus have been granted the status of dialogue partners and Afghanistan is a special guest.

    Ambassador to Russia Khalid Khattak said Pakistan carried regional significance at the SCO forum in the context of security and geographical location that linked South Asia with the energy-rich Central Asia.

    Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao will meet on Monday to discuss expanding their loose Central Asian security alliance to include Pakistan and Iran.

    Mr Putin will host Mr Wen in this city almost exactly 10 years after the two countries joined forces with the four ex-Soviet Central Asian republics to form the SCO.

    Russia has previously billed the alliance as a regional alternative to Nato and discussed at past meetings the option of including other regional powers in its ranks.

    “We are talking about Pakistan and Iran, which have applied for membership,” Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich told reporters ahead of the talks.

    “India is also intent on joining, and Afghanistan has said it wants to be an observer,” he said.

    But analysts said China preferred to view the group as primarily an economic organisation and noted that Pakistan’s membership had already been under discussion for five years.

    Russia is upset that the group still receives no formal recognition from Nato.

    “Of course, SCO expansion is not an easy process. It requires careful analysis and assessment,” Mr Lukashevich conceded.

    A senior Russian official said the meeting would note slowing global growth’s impact on the price of commodities —the bulk of Russia’s exports — and financial market stability.

    “You should expect the prime minister to deliver an assessment of economic affairs in the SCO region,” Russia’s SCO envoy Kirill Barsky told Interfax.

    “By the way, it is distinguished by stability, good GDP growth rates and improving investment attraction,” he said.

    Later, Prime Minister Gilani attended a dinner hosted by Pakistani Ambassador Khalid Khattak. Members of the Pakistani community and Russian businessmen and senior officials were present on the occasion.

    In his speech, Mr Gilani said the existing conditions were quite conducive to a partnership between Pakistan and Russia.

    He said there was considerable scope to initiate collaboration in various fields, particularly in energy, metallurgy, manufacturing, trade and investments.

    The government, on its part, would not only support, but go more than half way to invite and involve Russia’s businesses and investors in Pakistan’s economic development, Mr Gilani said.

    Minister for Petroleum Dr Asim Hussain, Board of Investment Chairman Saleem Mandviwala and Senator Sughra Imam also attended the event.

    http://www.dawn.com/2011/11/07/gilani-in-russia-for-summit-pakistan-seeks-full-sco-membership.html

    Posted 6 months ago on 08 Nov 2011 15:51 #

  7. shafiq12
    member

    Mirza Ghalib

    Vengence is at the heart of the stage

    Posted 6 months ago on 08 Nov 2011 15:57 #

  8. semirza
    Moderator

    Agreed oblivion, and this vengence is beyond the vision of our short sighted representative from Pakistan.

    Posted 6 months ago on 08 Nov 2011 16:19 #

  9. shafiq12
    member

    S.E.Mirza

    A willow-tree gives no fruit

    Posted 6 months ago on 08 Nov 2011 18:15 #

  10. semirza
    Moderator

    You reminded me of the 'weeping willow' as some of our family do manufactre cricket bats, so...but never the less brother, your comments are spot on.

    Posted 6 months ago on 08 Nov 2011 18:27 #

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