ISLAMABAD, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif agreed to further deepen the bilateral relationship between the two countries and raise it to strategic cooperation for the mutual benefit of their peoples, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
During Rahmon's two-day visit to Pakistan from Dec. 15 to 16, it was agreed in his delegation-level meeting with Sharif that a "bilateral strategic partnership agreement will be finalized at the earliest," the ministry's spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said here during a weekly media briefing.
A number of agreements and memorandums of understanding were signed in the areas of industry and new technologies, transit trade, combating trafficking in narcotics, cooperation among customs authorities on the establishment of electronic data interchange, research in the field of water resources, and cooperation in education, Baloch added.
She said the two sides would further explore new avenues of cooperation in trade, investment, transport, energy, education, culture, tourism, and climate change issues.
They have agreed to further boost multilateral cooperation for global and regional peace, stability and sustainable development, according to the spokesperson. ■
