PM Imran Khan meets Chinese President Xi Jinping

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday met Chinese President Xi Jinping during his visit to China, a day after attending the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics 2022 in the country, ARY NEWS reported.

Taking to Twitter to share details of the meeting, Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry said that the meeting between Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

وزیر اعظم عمران خان اور صدر شی کی جن پنگ کی ملاقات ختم ہو گئ ہے اور وزیر اعظم پاکستان روانگی کیلئےائرپورٹ کی طرف روانہ ہو چکے ہیں

— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) February 6, 2022

“The prime minister left for the airport after the meeting to return to Pakistan,” he said.

A handout detailing the meeting said that Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chinese President Xi Jinping Sunday reviewed the entire gamut of Pakistan-China bilateral cooperation and exchanged views on regional and global issues of mutual interest, in a warm and cordial atmosphere.

Both leaders held a meeting at the Great Hall of People. This was the first meeting of the two leaders since the Prime Minister’s visit to China in October 2019.

The prime minister underscored that China was Pakistan’s steadfast partner, staunch supporter and ‘Iron Brother’.

The prime minister briefed president Xi on people-centered geo-economics vision and his government’s policies for Pakistan’s sustained growth, industrial development, agricultural modernization, and regional connectivity.

He lauded China’s continued support and assistance to Pakistan’s socio-economic development which had greatly benefitted from the high-quality development of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

Prime Minister Khan welcomed increased Chinese investments in CPEC’s Phase-II which centered on industrialization and improving people’s livelihoods.

Both leaders acknowledged that a peaceful and stable Afghanistan would promote economic development and connectivity in the region and called on the international community to promptly assist the Afghan people in averting a humanitarian catastrophe.

Both leaders appreciated the signing of a number of agreements covering industrial cooperation, space cooperation, and vaccine cooperation.

The two leaders reaffirmed their resolve to building of the Pakistan-China community for shared future in the new era.