The formation of a new government in Pakistan will not affect the implementation of the Pakistan Stream gas pipeline project with Russia. This was reported to TASS on Friday by a source in the government of the republic.
"It will not affect," the agency's source said.
According to him, there is continuity in Pakistan's policy on such issues. He added that the sides are currently coordinating the legal aspects of the project.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova expressed hope that work on the project would continue under Pakistan's new government.
Shahbaz Sharif was elected prime minister of Pakistan on April 11. Sharif received 174 of the 342 votes cast in the National Assembly (the lower house of parliament). His predecessor, Imran Khan of the centrist Justice Movement party, was removed from office April 10 in a vote of no confidence.
An intergovernmental agreement on the construction of the North-South gas pipeline (Pakistan Stream) was signed between Russia and Pakistan in October 2015. The commercial agreements were to be signed in 2016, and the facility was planned to be commissioned by 2018, but the project deadlines have already been postponed several times. On May 28, 2021, Russian Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov and Pakistani Ambassador to Russia Shafqat Ali Khan signed a protocol on amendments to the intergovernmental agreement of October 16, 2015 on the construction of the Pakistan Stream gas pipeline (former North-South), which allowed to proceed to the practical implementation of the project.
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Based on materials from TASS