ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif met Russian President Vladimir Putin, and two leaders discussed bilateral ties and cooperation.
PM Shehbaz conveyed to President Putin that the relationship between Islamabad and Moscow is independent, stressing need to further boost bilateral cooperation.
Vladimir Putin expressed Moscow’s readiness to increase energy supplies and noted that the relations between the two countries are developing positively.
Sharf met Putin and other leaders in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, to participate in the twin Summits of the SCO Council of Heads of State and SCO plus. He was welcomed at the Nur Sultan Nazarbayev International Airport by Kazakhstan Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov and other officials.
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