PM Shehbaz to attend Joint Arab Islamic Summit in Saudi Arabia



Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif speaks during the COP27 climate summit in Egypts Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt November 8, 2022. — Reuters
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif speaks in the course of the COP27 local weather summit in Egypt’s Pink Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt November 8, 2022. — Reuters 

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will undertake a go to to Saudi Arabia to attend the Second Joint Arab Islamic Summit in Riyadh, to be held in Riyadh on November 11.

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 summit.

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

The heads of state and authorities and senior officers from Arab League and Organisation of Islamic Nations (OIC) member international locations 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 may also 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 obligations and respective capabilities.

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

COP29 is happening at a time when hundreds of thousands all over the world, together with in Pakistan, are dealing with extreme adversarial impacts of local weather change.

As an essential 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 continued 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 not too long ago pledged $2.2 billion funding in Pakistan.