ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari would leave for India tomorrow (Thursday) to attend a conference of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Goa, India, a local TV channel reported.
Foreign Minister Bilawal would be the first Pakistani FM to visit India in the last 12 years.
According to the spokesperson foreign office, Mumtaz Zahrah Baloch, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari would lead the Pakistan delegation to the SCO Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM), which would take place in the Goa city of India on May 4 and 5.
Pakistan’s foreign minister would also hold meetings on the sidelines of the SCO meeting during his visit to the neighbouring country.
Pakistan’s commitment to SCO charter
“Our participation in the meeting shows Pakistan’s commitment to the SCO charter, processes and the vitality that Pakistan accords to the whole region in its foreign policy priorities,” the spokesperson said in a weekly press briefing.
She recalled that the foreign minister also graced the Council of Foreign Ministers session in Tashkent last year in July.
The foreign minister attended the conference at the invitation of the current chairman of the SCO Council of Foreign Ministers, Dr S Jaishankar, India’s Minister for External Affairs.
Foreign Minister Bilawal also confirmed that he would be attending the upcoming SCO moot in Goa, India.
“It would be a gathering of foreign ministers, and I would go there as a representative of Pakistan,” he told media persons at a press conference in Islamabad.
