President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday said Russia can invest in regional and trans-regional projects while taking benefit from Pakistan's strategic location. Speaking at Skolkovo Moscow School of Management here, he said both Pakistan and Russia share the common objectives of peace and development and therefore it will be natural for the two countries to cooperate for these goals.
President Zardari said, "Our two countries need to expand and diversify their economic co-operation by engaging the corporate sectors. People to people contacts have its own dynamics to promote relations between countries." According to the prepared text of speech, the President said involving private entrepreneurs of the two countries is the key to enhancing cooperation.
Referring to the first official visit to Russia of any Pakistani President in more than 30 years, President Zardari said "for too long our two peoples had been kept at some distance." He said bilateral relations between Pakistan and the then Soviet Union during the Cold War period were not warm.