No Shehbaz-Modi meeting scheduled at UNGA: FO

Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch ruled out the possibility of Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meeting during the UN General Assembly.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will participate in the high-level segment of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly in New York from 23rd to 27th of this month.

Sharing details of the Prime Minister's visit, Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch at her weekly news briefing in Islamabad today, said that the Prime Minister Sharif in his address to the UN General Assembly will reaffirm Pakistan's steadfast commitment to multilateralism and express support for the role of the UN in fostering global peace, security and prosperity.

Shehbaz Sharif will attend several other high-level meetings on the sidelines of the UNGA session including the high level meeting on Existential Threat posed by Sea Level Rise and the UN Security Council's open debate on Leadership for Peace.

His program will also include bilateral meetings with world leaders, the UN Secretary General, the President of the UN General Assembly and members of Pakistani diaspora.