Source: The News
Date: November 11, 2010
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Pakistan had great potential to achieve a much higher economic growth dramatically on a sustained basis.
"For this purpose innovative ideas are needed and international assistance in areas of trans-regional connectivity and infrastructure development which will open up Pakistan to Central Asia, China and countries in the region, on one hand, and with Turkey and the Middle Eastern region, on the other," he said during his meeting with Dr Noeleen Hevzer, Executive Secretary United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), who called on him here on Wednesday.
President said that geo-strategic location of Pakistan offered great opportunities for enhanced regional economic cooperation, regional connectivity through transport, energy and telecommunications.
He also appreciated the support of ESCAP for its sustained help in growth and poverty reduction in the country and underlined the need that ESCAP would be assisting the government in its development priorities including social sector.
President Zardari also thanked the Executive Secretary for ESCAP generous support in rescue and rehabilitation of flood affectees. Dr Noeleen Hevzer thanked the president for the meeting and apprised about various activities of the organization in Pakistan, particularly in the fields of regional connectivity, development and environmental protection.
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