Dear friends!

After 8 years of productive work in Pakistan, I am leaving your beautiful country on the eve of the Independence Day. I’d like to take this opportunity for wishing all my friends and colleagues, as well as the whole friendly Pakistani nation prosperity, stability and progress.

It is especially important these days, when every country in the world has a lot of the new challenges. Undoubtedly, we are living in an extremely difficult time, which makes all of us restricted in every sphere of our activity – job, social communication and religious duties. To combat the coronavirus crises effectively, we need a solidarity, as only the collaboration and strong common concern may help us to overcome the situation. 

With this regard, it seems that Pakistan is among the countries, which perform an effective teamwork of handling the crises. We appreciate both the government’s approach and the civil society efforts. My special thanks to the officials and MOFA in particular for taking care of the diplomats, for providing us an updated information about the situation in the country. 

Pakistan is a strong nation. There is no doubt that you will overcome this situation and learn from it how to manage another crisis. What is more, the world will learn from your experience of successful management and effective combination of smart quarantine and further economic development.

Today’s Pakistan is an active actor on international stage and a well-known participant of many important global as well as regional initiatives. Your initiatives on peace-making process in Afghanistan are widely acknowledged, your struggle for human rights’ protection is the best demonstration of the basic principles of internal and external policy. Your projects like “Green and Clean Pakistan” among the brightest ones to protect our environment. I wish you all the success in implementing these initiatives and projects. 

Dear Pakistani friends!

Last 8 years of my life spent in your country were full of new cultural experience and extremely rich on communication with different people. The main thing I found out is the common spirit of friendship and tolerance, cultural inter-connections and strong intention to know each other better. I am sure Ukraine-Pakistan friendship will flourish and our nations will celebrate the progress and success together. Happy Independence Day! Stay blessed and prosperous!