Staff Reporter
Islamabad
Ambassador-designate of Pakistan to Ukraine, Maj. Gen. (Retd) Dr. Noel Israel Khokhar visited the Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry on Thursday and was given warm welcome by President Sardar Yasir Ilyas Khan and other office bearers of the Chamber.
During the discussion, Maj. Gen. (Retd) Dr. Noel Israel Khokhar informed that Pakistan has great potential to increase bilateral trade with Ukraine and urged that the business community should leverage this potential to promote country’s exports. He said that by developing close cooperation with Ukraine, Pakistan could get easy access to the huge Central Asian market.
He said that Pakistan has good defence cooperation and trade in defence products with Ukraine, but there was a great need to promote Pakistan’s traditional and non-traditional products to Central Asia through Ukraine for improving exports.
The Ambassador-designate said that he would try to bring a high level trade delegation from Ukraine to Pakistan to promote direct connectivity between the private sectors of both countries and explore new avenues of bilateral cooperation.
He said that he would look into the possibility of having a display centre for Pakistani products in Ukraine to introduce their export potential in Ukrainian market. He assured that he would facilitate the Pakistani business community in their pursuits to explore business opportunities and JVs in Ukraine.
