Daily Times

The Consul General of Russian Federation in Karachi Andrey V. Fedorov has said the bilateral cooperation among Pakistan and Russia was rapidly developing and high level contacts between leadership of both the countries had further strengthened it.

He said this while talking to APP and later on, addressing the “People’s Unity Day” ceremony held here late Friday night at the Consulate General of the Russian Federation. People’s Unity Day, is being celebrated by people of Russia on November 4 every year to commemorate an unprecedented resilience of our nation, Fedorov said in his speech.

Relying a question regarding Russia-Pakistan ties and the SCO Summit, Andrey V. Fedorov said the relations between Russia and Pakistan were developing with passage of time and currently there was a trade volume of over $ 2 billion between the two countries. He said all members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization are equal and working together to save future of our children.

He said SCO was providing stability of the region and it was working well.

Later on, addressing the ceremony, Andrey said “People’s Unity Day” is the day when our country rose from the ashes and liberated itself from the Polish occupants during the so-called Time of Troubles.

He said at the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17 century, Russia struggled through political chaos, Western intervention, impostors, famines and many other horrible events. Our civilization, culture and people were literally on the brink of extinction. And in that very moment in the year of 1612, an ordinary shopkeeper Kuzma Minin and a rich Duke Dmitry Pozharsky formed the people’s volunteer militia that helped Russia to regain its true independence.