Minister of State for Commerce and Textile Khurram Dastgir has returned to Pakistan after a week long official visit of Eastern Europe meant to seek support in the EU Parliament for the grant of GSP Plus status to Pakistan. At the end of the visit, he met Deputy Trade Minister, Poland Danuta Sojka-Andrzejewska and Under Secretary of State, Foreign Affairs, Katarzyna Kacperczyk.
Poland has one of the largest contingents in the EU Parliament. Minister of State solicited support of the Polish government in anticipation of a plenary vote in mid-December 2013 on European Union's grant of GSP+ trade preferences to Pakistan for three years.
In the Polish capital, Dastgir also met the Deputy Speaker of the Polish Senate Jan Wyrowinski and the Deputy Speaker of Sejm (Lower House) Jerzy Wonderlich. Wonderlich chairs the Pakistan Parliamentary Friendship Group in the Sejm. "I am delighted that Polish ministers as well as parliamentary leaders extended their fullest support to grant of GSP Plus status by EU Parliament to Pakistan," Dastgir said in a statement issued by the Pakistan Embassy.
Pak-Polish economic relations are improving with Polish companies investing in oil and mineral exploration in Pakistan, while Pakistani companies are investing in surgical goods and textile sectors of Poland. One of Pakistan's private airlines has recently purchased an aircraft from a Polish airline.
Khurram Dastgir instructed Pakistani Charge d'Affaires in Warsaw to expedite MoUs on cooperation in economic, banking, energy and mineral exploration sectors, currently pending between the two governments. Dr Safdar Sohail, Pakistan's senior economics and commerce official in Brussels, accompanied the minister during his Eastern European mission.
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