Pakistan supports Afghan reconciliation process
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Islamabad, March 5, IRNA -- Pakistan supports efforts of President Hamid Karzai and those of the High Peace Council led by Professor Burhannuddin Rabbani to promote reconciliation and peace in Afghanistan.
“Pakistan will continue assistance to Afghanistan in its endeavours to promote socio-economic development,” Pakistan Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Hina Rabbani Khar at the meeting on Afghanistan at Jeddah, said Friday.
The minister of state for foreign affairs underscored the need for promoting stability and peace in Afghanistan.
“To promote this objective, it was imperative that all countries, especially the immediate neighbours and those in the wider region, pledged themselves to respect the principles of non-interference and non-intervention as well as respect for Afghanistan’s sovereignty, political independence, unity and territorial integrity”.
She also underscored the importance of Afghan-owned and Afghan-led process of national reconciliation.
Pakistan has always enjoyed close brotherly relations with the people of Afghanistan. Cooperation between the two governments continues to progress in a comprehensive manner, she said.
Both governments have already agreed to speed-up the measures relating to trade facilitation in the context of a new Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement.
Both sides have also agreed to promote joint ventures and expand horizons of mutually-beneficial economic partnership as well as promote trans-regional development cooperation.
Hina Rabbani Khar also met Prof. Burhanuddin Rababni on the sideline of the meeting and announced support for his peace efforts.
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