Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will be on his first visit to Russia from February 23

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Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will be on a two-day visit to Russia from Wednesday during which he will hold talks with President Vladimir Putin and exchange his views on key regional and international issues. In addition to providing, will review bilateral relations in various fields including energy.

This will be the first visit by a Pakistani Prime Minister to Russia in the last 23 years. Pakistan’s Foreign Office said in a statement on Monday that Khan would make an official visit to Russia on February 23 and 24 at the invitation of Putin. The Pakistani Prime Minister will be accompanied by a high-level delegation of his cabinet colleagues, the statement said.

A Pakistan Foreign Ministry official has confirmed Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to Moscow on February 23-24. The bilateral summit between President Putin and Prime Minister Khan will be the highlight of the visit, the statement said. The Foreign Office has said, “During the summit, the two leaders will review bilateral relations in various areas, including energy cooperation. They will have a wide-ranging exchange of views on key regional and international issues, including Islamophobia and the situation in Afghanistan.

Khan’s visit to Russia comes weeks after he visited China, where he attended the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics and top Chinese leadership, including President Xi Jinping, despite diplomatic boycotts by the US, the European Union, and several Western countries of the mega event. talked with. President Putin also attended the event.

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Prime Minister Khan’s visit to Moscow is seen as a clear signal to the West in the face of tensions between Russia and Ukraine, especially after Khan refused to give Washington military bases in Pakistan following the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan. and has not received any phone calls from US President Joe Biden since he took office in the White House.

23 years after former prime minister Nawaz Sharif visited Moscow in 1999, Imran Khan will be the first Pakistani prime minister to visit Russia. Although former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf, Asif Ali Zardari, and former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi had visited Russia, none of them had made an official visit. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited Pakistan in April last year.

During the visit, he conveyed a message to the Pakistani leadership on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russia is ready to extend all possible help to Islamabad. Earlier, Russia’s state news agency ‘Taas’ had reported in a news on Sunday that Russian President’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov has confirmed preparations for the visit of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan.

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