ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar arrived in Moscow on Monday to attend the Council of Heads of Government (CHG) meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) scheduled for November 17-18 in the Russian Capital.
According to a Foreign Office statement, at the airport, he was received by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin, Deputy Director of State Protocol Alexander Persov, Deputy Director of the Second Asia Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Alexei Surovtsev, along with officials from the Pakistan Embassy in Moscow.
Deputy Prime Minister / Foreign Minister @MIshaqDar50 of Pakistan, H.E. Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar arrived in Moscow today to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation-Council of Heads of Government (SCO-CHG) meeting from November 17-18, 2025. At the airport, DPM / FM was… pic.twitter.com/uZZ6uG9UPd
— Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Pakistan (@ForeignOfficePk) November 17, 2025
During the meeting, Foreign Minister Dar is expected to discuss various bilateral and regional issues and engage in exchanges on regional cooperation and security matters within the framework of the SCO.
The gathering — the SCO’s second-highest decision-making forum — will bring together the heads of government of Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, along with the Vice President of Iran and the foreign ministers of Pakistan and India.
Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs said delegations from Mongolia, Bahrain, Egypt, Qatar, Kuwait, and Turkmenistan will also attend as observers, while senior officials from leading regional organisations, including the CIS, Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO,) and others, are expected to participate.
In his address, Dar will outline Pakistan’s position on key regional and global developments, focusing on economic cooperation, connectivity, trade integration, and socio-economic development within the SCO framework.
The CHG is mandated to approve joint communiqués, budgetary matters, and major organisational decisions.
