Prime Minister of Pakisstan Nawaz Sharif, who arrived yesterday in a three-day official visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, will be officially welcomed in front of the building of the institutions of BiH today, after which he will have a meeting with the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of BiH Denis Zvizdić.
Prime Minister Sharif will then speak with the members of the Presidency of BiH, as well as with the members of colleges of both houses of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH.
Also, it is planned that Sharif meets with the Reis ul-Ulema of the Islamic Community in BiH Husein Effendi Kavazović.
Within the visit by the Pakistani delegation, a business forum will be held today in the Foreign Trade Chamber of BiH with BiH and Pakistani businessmen.
On Thursday Sharif will visit the grave of the first President of the Presidency of RBiH Alija Izetbegović at the Kovači Cemetery. Sharif knew Izetbegović personally because he came to BiH for the first time in 1993.
Prime Minister of Pakistan will end his visit on Thursday, with a visit to the exhibition about Srebrenica in the Sarajevo Gallery “11/07/95”.
According to the BiH Ambassador to Pakistan Nedim Makarević, a lot is expected from this visit, especially from the business forum that will be held tomorrow.
“This visit means a lot because Pakistan is a friendly country which helped BiH in earlier years, and the most recent help from Pakistan came after the floods,” said Makarević.
Makarević also added that with 813 square kilometers of surface area, 200 million residents and around 300 nuclear warheads Pakistan is a major force and a friend of BiH that must be respected.
“There are possibilities for development of trade, textile and food industry, but primarily defense industry,” said Makarević.
Makarević said that in 2013 the export from BiH to Pakistan amounted to 100.000 BAM and now it amounts to 10 million BAM. However, it can increase to as much as 100 million BAM. Makarević said that everything can be agreed on the highest level between officials of the two countries and those possibilities are realistic, and precisely that is the reason why these meetings are good.
(Source: klix.ba)
