PNN – An American political-diplomatic delegation met with some senior officials in Islamabad for the first time since the formation of the new government in Pakistan during an official visit to the country.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network from Pakistan’s official sources, The American delegation headed by John Bess, the political deputy minister of foreign affairs of this country, met in Islamabad with Pakistani officials, including Rahim Hayat Qureshi, the regional deputy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (who was the Pakistani ambassador to Iran until the end of July last year).
A few hours ago, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan announced by issuing a statement: During the meeting of the American delegation, the parties had constructive discussions about all aspects of bilateral relations.
Pakistani and American officials emphasized each other’s commitment to strengthen cooperation in the fields of trade, investment and regional security. This is while the government of Pakistan strongly criticized the decision of the United States to sanction four foreign companies for cooperating with Pakistani parties in the field of defense and missiles in recent weeks. Recently, Islamabad has called the human rights report of the US Ministry of Foreign Affairs as biased and rejected it.
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Meanwhile, Pakistani media quoted diplomatic sources as saying that the trip of the American delegation is the first official visit of the country’s top officials after the formation of the new government in Islamabad.
These sources added that after the recent visits of the high-ranking delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Saudi delegation to Pakistan, the visit of American officials to Islamabad is also considered very important regarding the country’s foreign relations.
The presence of American officials in Islamabad comes at a time when Washington is still trying to block the development of Pakistan’s relations with its neighbors, especially Iran.
“Donald Lowe”, the assistant secretary of state of the United States of America, emphasized the country’s opposition to the advancement of the gas pipeline of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Pakistan, and claimed that Washington is in contact with Islamabad about this project.
Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, considered the recent visit of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran to that country as important and emphasized: Islamabad does not care about US sanctions and will do whatever is in line with the national interests.