Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar will lead Pakistan’s delegation to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Heads of Government meeting in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on October 19-20, the Foreign Office said on Monday.
Dar is visiting at the invitation of Tajikistan’s Prime Minister Qohir Rasulzoda.
The meeting will be attended by the prime ministers of Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, as well as Iran’s vice president and India’s external affairs minister, according to the Foreign Office.
The Council of Heads of Government is the SCO’s second-highest decision-making body. It provides guidance on economic, financial, trade, connectivity, commerce and socio-economic cooperation, as well as the organisation’s budgetary matters.
The meeting is expected to adopt a joint communiqué, statements and other decisions.
During the visit, Dar will also call on Tajikistan’s president and prime minister and hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts from SCO member states on the sidelines of the meeting, the Foreign Office said.