PM Shehbaz to visit Kazakhstan on Wednesday

Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will be leaving for Kazakhstan on Wednesday (October 12) for a two-day visit to attend the 6th Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia Summit from October 12-13.
Leaders of the “Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia” (CICA) member countries and observer states and other special guests are also to attend the meeting.
A high-level delegation will also accompany Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif on his tour to Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan on October 12 and 13.
On the sidelines of the conference, the prime minister is expected to have bilateral meetings with the presidents of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkiye and Azerbaijan. The premiere will be accompanied by senior federal cabinet members, sources said. In bilateral meetings, PM Shehbaz Sharif would focus particularly in the areas of energy, power and connectivity, they say.
Thirty years ago, at the 47th Session of the United Nations General Assembly First President Nursultan Nazarbayev proposed the idea of creating a conference on peace in Asia.
Since then, CICA has become the largest regional intergovernmental forum in Asia with 27 member states, along with nine countries and five international organizations having observer status.