MOSCOW: The discussions on Soviet-Pakistan co-operation in the spheres of economic development and trade, which opened yesterday [Sept 27] morning with a meeting between the Deputy Chairman of Pakistan Planning Commission Mr M.M. Ahmed and the Soviet Minister for Foreign Economic Relations Mr S.A. Skachkov are expected to be continued with the Soviet Ministers for Foreign Economic Relations and Foreign Trad e.

It is reliably learnt that senior Soviet Economic and Trade officials would soon visit Pakistan to discuss in detail and finalise the projects considered at the talks in Moscow. The agreement which emerges from Mr M.M. Ahmed`s current talks with the Soviet Economic and Trade Ministries is expected to be reflected in a joint communiqué on the Pakistan-Soviet summit talks.

The Pakistan delegation to these talks led by Mr Ahmed presented certain projects and the Soviet Government is believed to have evinced its interest in these projects. The size and nature of the Soviet economic and technical assistance for these projects included in the Third Five-Year Plan is now being determined. Correspondent [Meanwhile, as reported by another correspondent in Moscow,] President Ayub Khan and Premier Kosygin have agreed that Israel must vacate its aggression against the Arab States and that no gain should accrue to the Zionist State from the war it unleashed last June [Sept 28].

This important agreement is in accord with the message President Nasser of the UAR sent him through his roving envoy, Fawzi, just before the Pakistan President`s departure for the Soviet Union. It also meets the wishes King Husain expressed to President Ayub personally during his recent visit to Pakistan.