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SECRETARY KERRY: Pakistan and the United States - have enormous mutual interests. We are both
striving to combat extremism, terrorism, deal with the challenge of global energy, as well
as to provide for the prosperity of our people and deal with nuclear security. And it's nuclear
security that particularly brings us here to The Hague.
But we are working very, very closely together. I visited with the prime minister in August
of last year. We began a strategic dialogue again. We have worked together with our Security,
Strategic Stability, and Nonproliferation Working Group. That group is engaged in dealing
with issues of nuclear security as well as other challenges. And in addition, we met
recently in Washington. Dr. Aziz and I engaged in our strategic dialogue. And we look forward
to welcoming Finance Minister Dar, who will be coming to Washington for our finance component
of that discussion.
So we are deeply engaged, and I might add that we affirmed recently and we reaffirm
that we have great confidence in Pakistan's nuclear security. They've really done an enormous
amount of work. I know the prime minister will probably talk about that here at the
summit. But we do have important issues of cooperation with respect to the extremism,
terror, counterterrorism, and Afghanistan. And we look forward to discussing those issues
PRIME MINISTER SHARIF: Thank you, John. Thank you very much.
SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you, sir.
PRIME MINISTER SHARIF: It's always a pleasure to welcome you, and you've been a great friend
of Pakistan. Of course, we are very happy to have met here also. And as John has been
saying, that there are a lot of challenges - we are meeting these challenges in Pakistan.
We have been in office for almost about nine months and we've had very constructive discussions
with our American friends. I had a very good meeting with President Obama a few months
ago in Washington, and we are now following up all that we have discussed and agreed.
PRIME MINISTER SHARIF: Thank you.
SECRETARY KERRY: Thank you, Nawaz. Thank you.