Pakistan and Mexico enjoy cordial bilateral ties and have a huge potential to improve their economic relations especially in service delivery and manufacturing, said Awais Leghari, Chairman Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly in a meeting with the Mexican Ambassador.
The Mexican envoy for Pakistan, H.E. Ulesis Canchola paid a courtesy call to Leghari at the Parliament House. The Ambassador was also accompanied by Trade and Investment Officer for the Middle East Mr. Juan Antonio Cepeda Gutiérrez. The Ambassador said Mexico granted Pakistan A very important place in its foreign policy and wishes to reinvigorate the bilateral ties with her.
The ambassador, who also looks after Pakistan from the Mexican Embassy in Tehran, informed the chairman that Mexico was in the middle of a process to reopen its embassy in Islamabad which was closed in 2009 owing to financial restraints. Chairman Awais Leghari ensured him that he would get any cooperation needed in the process.
The visiting ambassador also wished to widen the existing legal bilateral framework between two countries which consists of six mutual agreements and three MoUs in different areas of economic and diplomatic ties.
