Addressing a high-level Roundtable on South-South Cooperation (SSC), co-chaired by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Chinese President Xi Jinping, the prime minister said the CPEC would bring huge economic and development benefits not only to Pakistan and China but also the entire region and beyond.

He said the project formed an important component of President Xi Jinping’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative.

“We greatly admire the vision underlying this initiative,” he said, adding that this development strategy and framework offered new opportunities for Asia’s transformation and prosperity.

Pakistan, Mr Sharif said, considered the SSC in trade, investment, human resource development, technology and financial resource generation in its interest.

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