UNGA president reaches Islamabad on 3-day official visit

President of the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (PGA), Volkan Bozkir, landed in Islamabad on Wednesday for a three-day — May 26-28 — official visit.

PGA Bozkir has reached Pakistan at the invitation of Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said earlier in the day.

The PGA landed in the country after concluding his visit to Bangladesh and is set to meet top officials of Pakistan during his three-day visit here.

Bozkir said that "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," he added.

During his stay in Islamabad, Bozkir will have detailed talks with the foreign minister, the Foreign Office said, which would cover a wide range of political and socio-economic issues on the UN agenda.

The UNGA president will also deliver a talk on the importance of multilateralism.

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