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ISLAMABAD, Nov 12 (KUNA) -- Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi
Friday said that the country has been taking various steps and measures with
sincerity for ensuring peace and security in the region.
"Pakistan is sincere to the development, progress, peace and prosperity in
the region and taking adequate measures in this regard," said the Minister in
his inaugural address at the two-day conference on (Pakistan-Afghanistan
towards mutual security, stability and trade.)
The Minister said that a strong, stable, peaceful and developed Afghanistan
is in the interest of Pakistan. Therefore, he added, Pakistan could not even
think about any destablization in Afghanistan.
He said one of the cardinal principles of Pakistans foreign policy is
based on neutrality and non-interference in Afghanistans internal affairs.
"We are engaged with Afghanistan bilaterally and through trilateral and
quadrilateral mechanisms with the involvement of countries like Iran, Russia,
Tajikistan, Turkey and the United States."
He said further that Pakistan is contributing to Afghanistans economic and
social development despite resource constraints. "We have undertaken
reconstruction projects worth 320 million dollars in that country," he said.
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