ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will address the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s (SCO) 25th Council of Heads of State summit on Monday at Tianjin, his office said, and engage with world leaders via bilateral meetings.
Sharif arrived in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin last week for the two-day summit which kicked off on Sunday. The Pakistani prime minister attended a banquet organized for world leaders attending the summit on Sunday night.
Sharif held informal meetings on Sunday with his Malaysian counterpart Anwar Ibrahim, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, Turkmenistan’s Serdar Berdimuhamedov, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said in an earlier statement.
“He [Sharif] will attend the 25th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and will address participants at the summit,” the PMO said regarding the Pakistani premier’s engagements.
It said Sharif’s address will be broadcast by the Pakistani state media, adding that he will also hold bilateral meetings with the heads of various countries on Monday.
