A meeting of the Friends of Democratic Pakistan (FoDP) countries' missions held on Monday here at the Foreign Office reviewed preparations for the upcoming FoDP's Public-Private Partnership Conference being held in Dubai on January26. The meeting was chaired by Abdul Basit, Additional Secretary and Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The FoDP representatives were informed that four sectors, namely energy, infrastructure development, agriculture and agro-based industry and social sector - education and health had been identified for public-private partnerships.It was stressed that Pakistan offered one of the friendliest foreign investment regimes and the public-private partnership frameworks in the world.

Copyright Associated Press of Pakistan, 2010