Pakistan and Armenia established diplomatic relationship on Sunday when their foreign ministers exchanged a joint communique, according to a statement from Pakistan's Foreign Ministry.
The ministry described the move as a historic step forward in bilateral relations.
Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar and Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan affirmed their commitment to the principles and objectives of the United Nations Charter and discussed possible avenues of cooperation, including economy, education, culture and tourism, according to the statement.
Both sides also reaffirmed their desire to work closely with each other at bilateral and multilateral levels to achieve their shared objectives of peace, progress, and prosperity for their peoples, according to the statement.
Pakistan, Armenia establish diplomatic relationship
China's Shenzhou-23 crewed spaceship blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the country's northwest on Sunday, sending three astronauts to its orbiting space station.
The spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, lifted off from the launch site at 23:08 Beijing Time (15:08 GMT).
The crew members consist of mission commander Zhu Yangzhu, and fellow astronauts Zhang Zhiyuan and Lai Ka-ying, who is also the first astronaut from China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
In another notable first, one of the crew members is set to undertake a year-long stay aboard the space station, double the usual duration of previous Shenzhou missions.
After entering orbit, the Shenzhou-23 spaceship will perform a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the radial port of the space station core module Tianhe, forming a combination of three modules and three spacecraft.
Shenzhou-23 marks the 40th flight of China's manned spaceflight program and the seventh manned flight mission since the Tiangong space station entered its application and development phase in late 2022.
China launches Shenzhou-23 manned spaceship
