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Pakistan, Ukrain to enhance cooperation in trade, defence

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Islamabad, Feb 8, IRNA -- Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud 
Kasuri and his Ukrainian counterpart Kostyantyn Gryshchenko have 
emphasized the need to enhance cooperation in the fields of trade 
and defence, Radio Pakistan reported Sunday. 
Both the foreign ministers are in Munich, attending the Munich 
Conference on Security Policy which began on Saturday. The meeting 
took place on the sidelines of the conference. 
During the meeting the foreign minister of Ukrain extended an 
invitation to Khrushid Kasuri to visit Kiev which was accepted by him,
the radio said, the Ukrainian foreign minister also accepted an 
invitation to visit Pakistan. 
Kasuri will be one of the keynote speakers at the conference. The 
Conference on Security Policy was inaugurated by the German Foreign 
Minister Joschka Fischer. 
The themes of the Conference are Prospects of Transatlantic 
Relations, Future of NATO and the Future Developments in Middle East. 
Keynote speakers include king of Jordan, US defence secretary, 
ministers for defence from Germany, United Kingdom, France, Russia 
and secretary general of NATO. 
Founded in 1962, the Munich Conference on Security Policy held 
every year has acquired the same prestige as enjoyed by the Davos 
Summit on world economic issues. 
Kasuri will deliver his speech tomorrow, when the conference will 
discuss the Future Developments in the Middle East. His address will 
focus on Pakistan and the Middle East, according to the radio. 
After the conference, Kasuri would travel to Berlin to meet German 
Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer and the Defence Minister Peter 
Struck, official sources said. 
He will also be meeting the chairman of the German parliament`s 
foreign affairs and defence committees separately. 
Coming barely six months after the visit to Germany by President 
Pervez Musharraf in June 2003, the visit of the minister is seen as a 
development in relations between the two countries. 
Kasuri will head to Warsaw on February 10 for a two day visit and 
will hold talks with his Polish counterpart Wlodzimierz Comoszewicz 
focusing on the strengthening of bilateral cooperation. 
Foreign Minister Kasuri is due to call on President Aleksander 
Kwasnieski of Poland. 
Recent years have been characterized by intensification of contacts
in diverse areas including agriculture and education betweem Warsaw 
and Islambad, a government statement said. 
Pakistan and Poland are also likely to sign an agreement to hold 
regular political consultations between the two countries. 
TK/TSH/212 
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