Pakistani parliamentary delegation visits Minsk

Strengthening cooperation and building new cooperation ties. Pakistan’s parliamentary delegation continues to visit the capital. The multivector nature of our relations was discussed in the House of Representatives.

Evidence of the high level of relations between Minsk and Islamabad confirms the exchange of visits at the highest level and meetings at the venues of international summits. Success in the implementation of the agreements is largely due to inter-parliamentary cooperation. The parties intend to engage more actively. The Pakistani delegation discussed the topics that were discussed at the Independence Palace the day before. Our contacts are based on the trade and economic agenda. To promote interests in industry, trade, transport, finance, IT – should be the agreement of the joint Belarusian-Pakistani Commission, which took place in August 2026. However, the reference points are much more.

Vadim Ipatov, Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus: Deputies are ready to actively engage in various areas of interaction. This, again, sounded in a meeting with the head of our state. The scope of the deputies’ efforts is quite wide. We can talk about regional cooperation, industry, agriculture and healthcare. Just recently, the Parliament of the House of Representatives ratified a treaty, a memorandum aimed at ensuring the sphere of labor and employment. That is, these are all the points that were discussed at the talks, and we are ready to actively engage in the implementation of these agreements.

The program of the visit is designed to show the full potential of Belarus. Another priority topic is medicine. The delegation of Pakistan got acquainted with the activities of the scientific and practical center of surgery, transplantology and hematology. Over the past decades, our country has become a leader in the field of high technology. It's about organ transplants. In these areas, Belarus is ahead of many countries, including Europe. New solutions are being actively implemented. Domestic experience is widely represented at international venues.

Anatoly Uss, Deputy Director for Hematology of the Minsk Scientific and Practical Center for Surgery, Transplantology and Hematology: Two years ago, we opened a new building thanks to the decision of the President of the Republic. We organized a new division, two divisions of table cell transplantation, a new unit of CAR-T therapy, the department of genetics and molecular biology. These are engineering chemistry, medical genetics and molecular biology together. There is no such profession yet, but there are already results. In this case, what we have done today has been treated, we are approaching about a hundred patients in all directions. The result is amazing. Over 90% of response to treatment in resistant, that is, forms of the disease that does not respond to any other therapy.

The delegation of Pakistan held talks with Alexander Lukashenko. The President proposed to conduct a serious review of relations between Minsk and Islamabad. A meeting was also held at the Council of the Republic, where a memorandum of cooperation was signed. The delegation is visiting Minsk at the invitation of Natalia Kochanova.