Pakistan and Brazil have expressed their common determination to fully develop the potential for cooperation in the fields of trade and investment and vowed to fight against hunger and poverty as well as combat illicit trafficking of drugs. | They've done such a bang-up job on their own |
The two countries declared this in a joint declaration issued at the conclusion of President General Pervez Musharraf's visit to capital Brasilia. The declaration said that both the countries held fruitful discussions in a friendly and cordial atmosphere on various bilateral, regional and international issues of mutual interest including current developments in South Asia. The two sides stressed the political importance of this bilateral visit and hoped that it would lead to increased cooperation between them. Pervez Musharraf and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva recognised a wide potential still to be explored to enlarge bilateral trade and reciprocal investments in order to reflect both the countries' economic and trade status in their respective regions and in the world. Both the countries agreed to fully implement the 1982 bilateral commercial agreement particularly the creation of a committee of representatives to facilitate the interaction of businessmen of the two countries through a joint business council.
| Brief, vivid vision of Qazi, Fazl and Sami visiting the beach in Rio... In summer... |
In the context of international fora, both the countries reiterated their commitment to multilateralism and their confidence in the success of the Doha round of negotiations of the WTO. The two presidents reaffirmed the right to development and the use of technologies for peaceful purposes and reiterated their commitment to non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
| You mean like the Khan network and Brazil's refusing to let the IAEA look at it's enrichment program? |
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