LAHORE: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Thursday reached Russia to participate in the two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit beginning in Sochi.
SCO Heads of Government meeting is the first summit that Pakistan will participate in after assuming full membership of the organisation in June this year.
The meeting will focus on the strategy, prospects and priorities for the SCO’s developmental cooperation.
PM Abbasi was invited by Prime Minister of Russian Federation DA Medvedev, the Foreign Office of Pakistan said in a statement.
The PM will outline Pakistan’s commitment to SCO’s objectives, including fighting terrorism and extremism and its sincere interest in regional peace, stability and development.
The meeting will close on a signing ceremony of decisions and a joint communiqué by the heads of the delegations.
