Kyrgyzstan keen to improve bilateral trade with Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, May 10 (APP):Kyrgyzstan on Thursday expressed its keen interest to further improve bilateral trade with Pakistan as both countries have great potential to increase trade in many areas.
“Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan enjoy good relations and have historical roots, common religion, similar traditions and worldview on many issues,” Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to Pakistan Erik Beishembiev said.
He was talking to a delegation of Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) that called on him here.The ICCI delegation was led by its Vice President Nisar Ahmed Mirza.
Kyrgyz Ambassador said in the recent years, leadership of both countries had shown great interest to further strengthen and develop bilateral and regional cooperation.
He said Kyrgyzstan was quite interested in supporting Pakistan in solving energy crisis and was actively promoting implementation of CASA1000 power export project.
He said the bilateral trade potential between Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan had not been realized as yet and there was a need of taking strong measures from both sides to improve the existing trade volume for mutual benefit.
Speaking at the occasion, Nisar Ahmed Mirza said Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan enjoyed excellent political relations that should be transformed into growing trade and economic relations.
He said Kyrgyzstan should consider launching direct flights to Pakistan that would help in improving trade relations.
He said Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan being members of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) could jointly achieve goals in the areas of transport, energy and trade policy to alleviate poverty from the region.
He said Pakistan and Kyrgyzstan had good potential to promote mutual cooperation in many areas and they should focus on developing strong linkages between their private sectors so that businessmen could explore all untapped areas of trade and exports.
He said both countries should also focus on developing better interaction between trade promotion organizations.
He said many Pakistan products including pharmaceuticals, surgical instruments, textiles, sports and cutlery products could find good market in Kyrgyzstan and it should import these products from Pakistan.