DPM Dar to address high-level UNSC debate in New York amid busy day of engagements

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. It added that the engagements will include meetings with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, as well as Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov; Costa Rica’s Foreign Minister Manuel Tovar and former vice president Rebeca Grynspan; Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani; Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla; Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Petr Macinka of the Czech Republic; and Colombian Foreign Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio. In the evening, Dar will attend a dinner hosted by Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN with ambassadors and permanent representatives of various Arab-Islamic and European countries, the statement said. In a post on the social media platform X, the FO also said that Dar would attend the debate. “He will also hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts, as well as senior UN officials,” it said. It said that upon arrival, Dar was received by Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad and Consul General of Pakistan in New York Aamer Ahmad Atozai. The FO had earlier stated that Dar was also scheduled to attend a meeting of the Group of Friends on Global Govern