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Pakistan, China to develop cooperation in space technology
(Updated at 2115 PST)
BEIJING: Pakistan and China will soon work out a plan to enhance cooperation in the field of space technology for peaceful purposes.
An agreement to this effect was reached during the recent highest-level talks held here between President Pervez Musharraf and the Chinese leadership.
The two sides agreed to develop close cooperation between their respective institutions in the earth, marine and space sciences and promote the application of relevant technologies in industry and agriculture.
In a joint statement issued at the end of President Musharraf’s recent visit to China, the two sides reaffirmed their commitment to promote partnership in the hi-tech sector.
They also agreed to cooperate in seismology, geology and Antarctic sciences. Official sources in Beijing told APP that the bilateral cooperation in the field of space technology could span a broad spectrum of topics of mutual priority.
The areas of cooperation may include climate science, clean energy technologies, clean water technologies, cyber-security, basic space, atmospheric and earth sciences and marine sciences.
The two countries also agreed to establish close interaction at regional level as well to share their experience, expertise and available resources, developing space technology.
In this connection, Pakistan, China and five other regional countries have already launched Asia Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO).
This regional arrangement was set up to promote capabilities of the member countries in several areas of space technology applications. The member countries signed a Convention, pledging to cooperate for peaceful use of outer-space for mutual benefits.
According to the sources, Pakistan and China played a pioneering role in establishing the organization, first of its kind to expand cooperation in space activities in the Asia-Pacific region. This is aimed at enabling the member countries to share their available resources in the use of satellite remote sensing data in environmental protection, natural resources exploitation as well as disaster monitoring and prevention, he added
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Yes…He also mentioned that he had asked G.W.Bush for 1000MW nuclear power plant. Anyway in his news conference while referring to the joint statement he said that Pakistan is allowed to buy weapons with TOT facility, it is up to Pakistan now whether to shop from them or not. We can have most modern F-16s but it is us who have to decide we need them or not and if need them then how much of them we can buy he said.
He stated that we also have other option to consider and we will go for the most cost effective one. Without naming India he said “If they want to spend that much money on their defense they should we have no intentions to follow but we will not give-up the minimum deterrence level and where ever we traced our weakness we will remove it.”
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