MINSK: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in Belarus on Thursday for a two-day official go to on the invitation of President Aleksandr Lukashenko.
The premier was obtained on the Minsk airport by Belarusian Prime Minister Alexander Turchin together with senior officers from the Pakistan embassy. He’s accompanied by a high-level delegation together with Deputy Prime Minister and International Minister Ishaq Dar, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz, Minister for Data and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar, and Particular Assistant to the Prime Minister Tariq Fatemi.
Based on the International Workplace, the go to will span April 10–11 and consists of talks between PM Shehbaz and President Lukashenko to evaluation progress in areas of mutual curiosity.
“Over the previous six months, a collection of high-level bilateral engagements — together with the eighth Session of the Joint Ministerial Fee (JMC) in February 2025 and a subsequent go to by a high-powered combined ministerial delegation to Belarus in April 2025 — have laid the groundwork for a productive go to,” the FO stated in a press release.
Throughout the go to, a number of agreements are anticipated to be signed to strengthen cooperation in various fields.
The International Workplace famous that the go to underscores the robust and ongoing partnership between Pakistan and Belarus.
In November 2024, each international locations signed a three-year Roadmap for Complete Cooperation for 2025–27. The wide-ranging settlement was amongst 15 Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) and offers inked throughout a earlier assembly between PM Shehbaz and President Lukashenko, which additionally included a delegation-level dialogue.
The signed MoUs span a number of sectors together with e-commerce, science and expertise, well being providers, vocational schooling, halal commerce, accreditation, and auditing. Agreements had been additionally made on cooperation in intelligence sharing on cash laundering and terrorism financing, customs statistics, worldwide street transport, catastrophe administration, and environmental and local weather change initiatives.
An extradition treaty was additionally signed to strengthen the authorized framework between the 2 international locations.
A joint communique issued on the finish of the earlier spherical of talks stated the agreements had been “anticipated to open new prospects for the continued growth of bilateral relations based mostly on the rules of mutually useful friendship.”