{"id":53477,"date":"2019-07-11T17:12:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T12:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=53477"},"modified":"2019-07-11T17:12:21","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T12:12:21","slug":"foreign-minister-welcomes-commonwealth-interest-cpec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/foreign-minister-welcomes-commonwealth-interest-cpec.html","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Minister welcomes Commonwealth interest in CPEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: At a meeting held to celebrate the 70<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the London Declaration on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi announced that Pakistan would welcome Commonwealth interest in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/more-specialised-economic-zones-to-be-established-under-cpec.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">special economic zones<\/a> (SEZs) being developed along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) route, according to a news report. He told the attendees that the CPEC project, expected to make Pakistan the hub of economic activity within the South Asian region, was quickly nearing its completion phase.<\/p>\n<p>During the session, Qureshi remarked on the role played by the Commonwealth in promoting good governance as well as social and economic development in its member states, and touched on matters of collective interest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cpec-facilitate-pakistans-gdp-growth.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CPEC to facilitate Pakistan\u2019s GDP growth<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The minister said that following Pakistan\u2019s reinstatement as a member of the Commonwealth in 2008, the country had taken several positive steps and implemented effective long-term policies in line with the association\u2019s national regulatory agenda. He reminded the members that the National Development Strategy of Pakistan, Vision 2025, was completely aligned with the group\u2019s communicated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cdwp-approves-10-billion-tree-tsunami-tree-project.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CDWP approves \u201810-billion Tree Tsunami\u2019 tree project<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He stated that Pakistan, a growing economy of more than 200 million people, was actively seeking overseas investments and the strengthening of its trade and communication links with other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of his address, the foreign minister announced the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp for the 70<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Commonwealth to show solidarity with the transnational organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: At a meeting held to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the London Declaration on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi announced that Pakistan would welcome Commonwealth interest in the special economic zones (SEZs) being developed along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) route, according to a news report. He told the attendees that the CPEC project, expected to make Pakistan the hub of economic activity within the South Asian region, was quickly nearing its completion phase. During the session, Qureshi remarked on the role played by the Commonwealth in promoting good governance as well as social and economic development in its member states, and touched on matters of collective interest. Read:\u00a0CPEC to facilitate Pakistan\u2019s GDP growth\u00a0 The minister said that following Pakistan\u2019s reinstatement as a member of the Commonwealth in 2008, the country had taken several positive steps and implemented effective long-term policies in line with the association\u2019s national regulatory agenda. He reminded the members that the National Development Strategy of Pakistan, Vision 2025, was completely aligned with the group\u2019s communicated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework. Read:\u00a0CDWP approves \u201810-billion Tree Tsunami\u2019 tree project He stated that Pakistan, a growing economy of more than 200 million people, was actively seeking overseas&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":53478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12205],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-53477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","tag-details-on-foreign-minister-welcomes-commonwealth-interest-in-cpec"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Foreign Minister welcomes Commonwealth interest in CPEC - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: At a meeting held to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the London Declaration on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi announced\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/foreign-minister-welcomes-commonwealth-interest-cpec.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Foreign Minister welcomes Commonwealth interest in CPEC - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: At a meeting held to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the London Declaration on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi announced\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/foreign-minister-welcomes-commonwealth-interest-cpec.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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