ISLAMABAD:Pakistan has said that it will engage with the Afghan authorities to find ways to stop misuse of the Afghan transit trade which is badly impacting the economy, tells Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch here on Thursday.
At the weekly news briefing in Islamabad, Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said the prime minister will be accompanied by Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani during his visit to New York.
Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar will address the annual UN General Assembly session in New York on the 22nd of this month.
The spokesperson said the prime minister in his address to the UNGA will outline Pakistan’s perspective on a range of regional and global issues of concern including Jammu and Kashmir dispute which is amongst the longstanding unresolved items on the UN Agenda. The Prime Minister will elaborate on the significant measures being taken by the caretaker government to consolidate Pakistan’s economic recovery and efforts to mobilize domestic and external investments.
Ms Baloch said the Prime Minister will also participate in a summit on the sustainable development goals and other high level meetings to be organized under the auspices of UNGA. She said these will afford valuable platforms to deliberate on effective measures required at the global level to addressing the most pressing economic and development challenges confronting the global South in the wake of Covid-19, geo political contestations and climate change.
