Top Turkish and Pakistani officials reaffirmed on Saturday the close and brotherly relations between the two countries, emphasizing the potential to further strengthen economic cooperation in a number of fields.
Addressing the Pakistan-Türkiye Business Conference in Istanbul, officials, including Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, reinstated their aim to elevate bilateral trade volume to $5 billion.
Speaking at the conference, Yılmaz said that the friendship between the two countries has always been built on "strong emotional bonds," adding that "now we must make this friendship equally strong in trade, investment, technology and production."
Starting his speech, the vice president said that they had come together on the occasion of the conference not only to review economic cooperation between the two countries, but also to open the doors to a new era of cooperation.
Yılmaz also praised Islamabad's diplomatic role in recent months aimed at defusing tensions in the Middle East and its mediating role between the United States and Iran.
