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MINSK, 10 August (BelTA) - Belarus and Pakistan will develop a roadmap for the development of cooperation. This decision was taken by Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after the talks in Minsk, BelTA has learned.

We have decided that the members of the joint Belarusian-Pakistani commission will work intensively in order to develop the roadmap for the development of relations for the short and med-term perspectives, the Belarusian leader said.

Alexander Lukashenko believes that the Belarusian-Pakistani economic relations should develop more dynamically. They should not be limited to trade. The two countries need to build up the capacity of industrial cooperation and investment.

We know that in Pakistan Belarus is primarily associated with the same-name tractors, and only then with the country. The Belarusians have long known Pakistani rice, textiles, and other products, the Belarusian leader said.

The head of state said that today the parties should come closer to reaching the agreements which will allow making great advances in such areas as industry, pharmacology, logistics, agriculture and others in the future.

The President is confident that the first in history official visit of the Pakistani prime minister, the leader of the people of Pakistan, to Belarus will mark an important stage in the development of the all-round bilateral cooperation and will fill it with new content. “You should know that you have friends here, and we will always be glad to see you in Belarus,” Alexander Lukashenko said.