{"id":11806,"date":"2025-09-27T22:10:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T22:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/09\/27\/russia-supports-pakistan-saudi-partnership\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T22:10:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T22:10:04","slug":"russia-supports-pakistan-saudi-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/09\/27\/russia-supports-pakistan-saudi-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Supports Pakistan Saudi Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several Pakistani media reports recently covered a defence agreement between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, prompting questions about Moscow&#8217;s view. In response to a journalist&#8217;s inquiry on Russia&#8217;s assessment of the Pakistan Saudi defence understanding, Russia&#8217;s ambassador to Pakistan, <strong>Al B P Khurief<\/strong>, provided a formal clarification in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Russian side respects the sovereign right of two independent states to sign international agreements and to promote cooperation in areas of mutual interest,&#8221; the ambassador said, underlining Moscow&#8217;s stance on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The envoy&#8217;s remarks frame the Pakistan Saudi defence ties as a bilateral decision between sovereign states and signal Russia&#8217;s respect for that prerogative. For Pakistani audiences, the statement highlights Moscow&#8217;s approach of acknowledging partner states&#8217; choices while maintaining diplomatic neutrality on bilateral agreements pursued by Islamabad and Riyadh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia affirms respect for sovereign choices on the Pakistan Saudi defense agreement, envoy in Islamabad says. Read the full clarification from Russia&#8217;s ambassador.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}