据路透社10月6日伊斯兰堡报道，沙特阿拉伯已经原则上同意对巴基斯坦的由中国出资建设的深水港——瓜德尔港的一座新炼油厂进行投资，这个南亚国家的石油部长周四表示。

国有巴基斯坦国家石油公司将与沙特国家石油巨头阿美公司在此项目上结成合作伙伴，石油部长Ghulam Sarwar Khan告诉记者。

他补充称，一旦巴基斯坦内阁周四批准的正式谅解备忘录最终敲定，炼油厂成本和产能的细节将在晚些时候得出。

瓜德尔港位于俾路支省西南部，是中国在巴基斯坦投资600多亿美元的“一带一路”项目中的一颗明珠。

此前，新任总理伊姆兰•汗(Imran Khan)对利雅得进行了自上任以来的首次外交访问。

蔡小全 编译自 路透社

原文如下：

Saudi Arabia agrees to invest in new oil refinery in Pakistan's Gwadar

Saudi Arabia has agreed in principle to invest in a new oil refinery in Pakistan's Chinese-funded deep-water port of Gwadar, the South Asian nation's petroleum minister said on Thursday.

State-owned Pakistan State Oil will partner with Saudi state oil giant Aramco on the project, Petroleum Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan told reporters.

Details of the refinery's costs and capacity are to be worked out later, once a formal memorandum of understanding that was approved by Pakistan's cabinet on Thursday is finalised, he added.

Gwadar, in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, is the crown jewel of China's more than $60 billion in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects in Pakistan.

The offer came after new Prime Minister Imran Khan made Riyadh his first foreign visit since taking office.