Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman and Pakistans Finance Minister Ishaq Dar held on Thursday the first meeting of the Saudi-Pakistani Steering Committee of the Economic Pillar. Prince Abdulaziz confirmed in a statement that the Kingdom considers Pakistan an important partner in its development plans and programs. He added that the two countries seek, through the work of this Subcommittee, to promote areas of cooperation, find new partnership opportunities, and create initiatives of mutual benefit and interest to both counties and their peoples. He hailed the strong and historic relations between the two countries, Saudi Arabia’s official news agency SPA reported. Prince Abdulaziz also pointed to the cooperation in energy, under which many topics are currently being discussed, such as “cooperation in the oil industry and supply, petrochemicals, electricity, renewable energy, industry, transport, and many other potential opportunities.” Both sides agreed at the end of the meeting to advance the committee’s work, follow up on the meeting’s outcomes and continue joint coordination between the work teams to achieve results that live up to the aspirations of the leadership and peoples of the two brotherly countries. The work of the Steering Committee also involves a number of other areas including energy, industry, mineral resources, commerce, finance, environment, agriculture, transport, logistics, communications, information technology, tourism, and investment.