PM Shehbaz to go to Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan for worldwide summits

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif addressing an event in Islamabad in this undated image. — APP/file
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif addressing an occasion in Islamabad on this undated picture. — APP/file
  • Second Joint Arab Islamic Summit to happen on Nov 11.
  • PM to attend Local weather Motion Summit in Baku on Nov 12-13.
  • PM Shehbaz anticipated to carry conferences with world leaders. 

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will go to Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan subsequent week to attend the Second Joint Arab Islamic Summit in Riyadh and the World Leaders Local weather Motion Summit in Baku.

Addressing a weekly press briefing on Thursday, Overseas Workplace Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch mentioned that the premier will go to Saudi Arabia to take part within the Second Joint Arab Islamic Summit being held in Riyadh on November 11.

Being convened on the initiative of the Saudi authorities, the summit will likely be a follow-up to the Joint Arab Islamic Extraordinary Summit held on November 11, final yr to debate the state of affairs in Gaza and different occupied territories.

The heads of state and authorities and senior officers from Arab League and Organisation of Islamic International locations (OIC) member nations are anticipated to take part within the summit.

On the sidelines of the summit, the prime minister can be anticipated to carry bilateral conferences with leaders from different Arab League and OIC member states.

After concluding his kingdom’s go to, Baloch mentioned, PM Shehbaz will even go to Baku, Azerbaijan, to take part within the World Leaders Local weather Motion Summit being held on November 12-13 as a part of the twenty ninth UN Local weather Change Convention.

Deputy Prime Minister and Overseas Minister Senator Ishaq Dar, different cupboard members, and senior officers will accompany the prime minister who will make a strong name for local weather solidarity and local weather justice primarily based on the established ideas of fairness and customary however differentiated tasks and respective capabilities.

On the sidelines of the summit, he’s additionally scheduled to carry bilateral conferences with taking part world leaders.

COP29 is going down at a time when hundreds of thousands world wide, together with in Pakistan, are going through extreme opposed impacts of local weather change.

As an necessary stakeholder, Pakistan will proceed to make constructive contributions to the worldwide local weather debate, negotiations, and collective motion.

Final month, the premier visited Saudi Arabia to attend the eighth session of the Future Funding Initiative (FII).

He additionally met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as each leaders took inventory of the continuing bilateral engagements, particularly in follow-up to the choices taken in earlier high-level conferences held in Makkah and Riyadh in April.

Throughout PM’s go to, the dominion introduced including one other $600 million to its lately pledged $2.2 billion funding in Pakistan.