{"id":59683,"date":"2019-11-27T17:20:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2019\/11\/di-stefano-in-pakistan-ampia-collaborazione-bilaterale_0-2\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T17:20:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:20:18","slug":"di-stefano-in-pakistan-ampia-collaborazione-bilaterale_0-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/retediplomatica\/2019\/11\/di-stefano-in-pakistan-ampia-collaborazione-bilaterale_0-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Undersecretary Di Stefano in Pakistan: broad bilateral cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/mae\/resource\/img\/2019\/11\/ekyiwuxw4aatbk9_1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" alt=\"ekyiwuxw4aatbk9 1\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Undersecretary Manlio Di Stefano&#8217;s mission to Pakistan wound up after a tight two-day schedule of meetings with Islamabad authorities, which started with the Interior Minister,\u00a0Ijaz Ahmad Shah. With his interlocutor, Di Stefano discussed about cooperating on combating irregular migration flows, as Pakistan is the second country of origin of clandestine migrant flows to Italy. The bilateral meeting offered the opportunity to outline concrete solutions leading to improve cooperation between the authorities of the two Countries\u00a0on the issue of repatriations.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The Undersecretary then co-chaired\u00a0the Fourth Session of the Italy-Pakistan\u00a0Joint\u00a0Economic Committee\u00a0together with the Pakistani Minister of Economic Affairs Muhammad Azahar. In 2018,\u00a0 bilateral trade peaked at 1.45 billion euros, with almost a 50% rise from 2014. The Undersecretary welcomed these data and expressed the wish for this positive trend to continue, thus opening new cooperation and investment opportunities.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Moreover, the Undersecretary also met with the Minister for Human Rights and the\u00a0Minister of\u00a0Trade, the Chairman of the\u00a0Board of\u00a0Investment and the Secretary-General of the Ministry of\u00a0Foreign Affairs.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Undersecretary Manlio Di Stefano&#8217;s mission to Pakistan wound up after a tight two-day schedule of meetings with Islamabad authorities, which started with the Interior Minister,\u00a0Ijaz Ahmad Shah. With his interlocutor, Di Stefano discussed about cooperating on combating irregular migration flows, as Pakistan is the second country of origin of clandestine migrant flows to Italy. The [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[45,3,399],"class_list":["post-59683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retediplomatica","tag-asia-e-oceania","tag-diplomazia-economica","tag-vice-ministri-e-sottosegretari-precedenti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}