Ambassador Andreas Ferrarese works hard to boost Pakistan-Italy trade ties

Celina Ali

Islamabad: Ambassador of Italy to Pakistan Andreas Ferrarese is working hard to boost the trade ties between Italy and Pakistan.

The envoy, who works every day of the week and is easily accessible to the businesspersons, is ready to facilitate the businesspersons in a bod to enhance business relations.

The envoy believes that Italy and Pakistan have a potential of € 4 billion bilateral trade and it’s perfectly doable with collective efforts of both governments and private sectors collaboration.

The Ambassador said this week that in 2023 trade had exponentially grown and can reach around €2b and in 2021 it was recorded to €1.52b. It is the first time that Pakistan’s exports surpass €1b and are more than imports in Italy, making Italy the second largest export destination in the European market.

The envoy said that to achieve the €4b goal both countries need to enhance investments and explore new avenues of business cooperation such as in Information and renewable technologies.

He added that the during the last 10 years the Pakistani community in Italy has grown up from 25000 thousand to 200,000 and they’re very well accepted by the Italian population and even sometimes “I have received calls from politicians to make visas easy. So, it means that everybody needs Pakistani community, they are hard workers”.

He said Pakistan and Italy have a long history of cordial relations and cooperation in political, economic, cultural, and social spheres. It is a matter of great satisfaction that the two nations have unanimity of views on several issues of global importance, and mutual cooperation in all fields has been on the rise.