Senate chief, Polish envoy discuss matters of interest

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Chairman, Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani, on Thursday emphasised need to further strengthen the existing bilateral relations between Pakistan and Poland through enhancing parliamentary ties and cooperation in various areas of mutual interest.

He said this while talking to Piotr A Opalinski, Ambassador of Poland to Pakistan, who visited the Parliament House to call on the Senate chairman. Both sides exchanged views on matter of mutual interests, specially, focusing on enhancing bilateral cooperation in different sectors.

The Senate chairman, while welcoming the Polish envoy, observed that Pakistan placed its bilateral relations with Poland at high esteem and there is huge scope to further strengthening parliamentary, cultural and economic ties for mutual benefits of both the nations He said that trade bodies of both the nations can steer the efforts for boosting the economic ties. The Senate chairman expressed satisfaction over mutual cooperation between Pakistan and Poland at international fora. He said that Parliamentary Friendship Group in parliament can play an active role for enhancing the bilateral ties as the parliamentarians are better placed to offer incentives during dialogue process.

The Senate chairman also emphasised for cooperation in education sector, especially by providing scholarships to students from under developed areas of Pakistan particularly from Balochistan.

Polish ambassador said that Poland is looking forward for providing assistance and enhancing cooperation in the areas of mines and minerals as well as defense. He said that Poland desires to expand mutual ties and enter into long term partnership with Pakistan as the warmth and friendship between the two is deep rooted.

He apprised the chairman about companies involved in Oil and Gas exploration and said that there is huge scope for boosting cooperation in energy sector. He expressed well wishes to the government, people and parliament of Poland and hoped that both sides would strive to explore new vistas of cooperation for investment in different sectors..