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#Outcomes2024 🎙Ishtiaq Hamdani, PTV World: Russia's maritime doctrine considers the Indian Ocean as a region of strategic interest. How can Pakistan use its relations with SCO and BRICS countries in line with this strategy to promote secure and mutually beneficial economic cooperation? What would you say about the current relations between Russia and Pakistan? 💬Sergey Lavrov: Relations are developing in an upward direction. This is the most positive period in many decades. There are a number of projects to restore what was created in the Soviet period for the Pakistani economy. ❗️There is mutual interest in practical cooperation in the fight against terrorism. Pakistan also suffers from it. The fight against terrorism requires joint efforts with your Afghan neighbors, with India, with all SCO members, because Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan are used by "bad people" to plan and implement their criminal plans. The SCO has an anti-terrorist structure. It works well. There is an exchange of information. Taking into account the fact that the financing of terrorism is seriously linked to drug trafficking (a form of organized crime), for several years we have been promoting the initiative to create a single center to combat new threats, including terrorism, drug trafficking, organized crime and human trafficking. This year we will begin to implement such a decision. I would like to emphasize that all these organizational measures are important, but it is more important to build confidence within the SCO, within the format that is currently working on Afghanistan (Russia, China, Pakistan and Iran). We are sure that India's participation would be a step in the right direction. 👉 The SCO and formats on Afghanistan, such as the Moscow format, provide platforms where Pakistan, India and China can communicate more, try to understand each other better, ask questions that concern them, receive and analyze answers. We are ready to help in every possible way. This is in the interest of your countries, our region and the SCO. 🔗More on the Ukrainian settlement, expectations for Donald Trump's administration, and UN Security Council reform