ISLAMABAD – President of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly Volkan Bozkir arrived in Pakistan on a three-day visit at the invitation of Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi.
Bozkir reached the country after concluding his visit to Bangladesh and is set to meet top officials of Pakistan during his visit here.
After an important and fruitful official visit to Bangladesh,
I arrived in Islamabad for my official visit to Pakistan.
I look forward to my important meetings tomorrow in Islamabad. #UNGA75 🇺🇳🇵🇰 pic.twitter.com/3rHLztxkWA— Volkan BOZKIR (@volkan_bozkir) May 26, 2021
Bozkir, during the three-day visit, will have detailed talks with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Qureshi along with the country’s top leaders. A wide range of political and socio-economic issues on the UN Agenda will likely to discuss during the meeting.
A statement issued by the Foreign Office in this regard stated that ‘Bozkir, the first Turkish citizen to be elected as UNGA president, will have detailed talks with the FM and will cover a wide range of political and socio-economic issues on the UN agenda.
Upon the invitation of FM @SMQureshiPTI, the President of the 75th Session of the @UN General Assembly (PGA), @volkan_bozkir will undertake an official visit to Pakistan from 26-28 May 2021. Mr. Bozkir will have detailed talks with FM and call on the 🇵🇰 leadership.
— Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Pakistan (@ForeignOfficePk) May 26, 2021
The president-elect of the 75th session of UNGA will also deliver a talk on the Importance of Multilateralism’, it further added.
FM Qureshi, during his meeting with the UNGA president in New York, briefed him on the deteriorating human rights and humanitarian situation in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
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The 70-year-old is the first Turkish national to preside over the UN General Assembly and is a former diplomat and a senior politician. He last visited Pakistan in August 2020 before taking up the prestigious position of UNGA president.
