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Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar will spend a busy day at the United Nations today, including attending a high-level UN Security Council (UNSC) debate, the Foreign Office (FO) said on Tuesday.
The deputy prime minister arrived in New York today on an official visit from May 26-28.
The debate is being held under China’s presidency of the council and chaired by its Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the UN Headquarters. Dar will deliver a statement at the meeting, according to a press release by the Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the UN.
On the sidelines of the debate, he will hold a series of bilateral meetings with his counterparts as well as the UN leadership to “discuss bilateral relations, regional developments, and cooperation at the multilateral level”, the statement said.
