{"id":5131,"date":"2023-05-04T16:03:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T11:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=5131"},"modified":"2023-05-04T16:09:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T11:09:31","slug":"bilawal-arrives-in-india-to-participate-in-sco-meeting%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/asia\/bilawal-arrives-in-india-to-participate-in-sco-meeting%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilawal arrives in India to participate in SCO meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GOA (India), May 3 (APP): Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari arrived in India\u2019s Goa city to participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization\u2019s Council of Foreign Ministers meeting.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On his arrival in Goa, the foreign minister expressed confidence that CFM would lead to a successful outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The foreign minister is attending the SCO CFM meeting at the invitation of the current Chair of SCO CFM, Dr. S. Jaishankar, Minister for External Affairs of India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari also attended the last meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers held in July last year in Tashkent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy participation gives a clear message that how Pakistan shows importance to the SCO and how seriously it takes its membership,\u201d the foreign minister said in a video message before his departure to attend the SCO\u2019s CFM meeting in Goa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FM <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBhuttoZardari?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BBhuttoZardari<\/a> has arrived in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Goa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Goa<\/a> to participate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SCO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SCO<\/a> Council of Foreign Ministers. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PakFMatSCO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PakFMatSCO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i8nfBHOXOZ\">pic.twitter.com\/i8nfBHOXOZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ministry of Foreign Affairs &#8211; Pakistan (@ForeignOfficePk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForeignOfficePk\/status\/1654052144205398016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He said he looked forward to engaging the countries which were part of this organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said his decision to attend this meeting illustrated Pakistan\u2019s strong commitment to the charter of SCO. \u201cDuring my visit, which is focused exclusively on the SCO, I look forward to constructive discussions with my counterparts from friendly countries\u201d, the foreign minister said in a tweet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOA (India), May 3 (APP): Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari arrived in India\u2019s Goa city to participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization\u2019s Council of Foreign Ministers meeting. On his arrival in Goa, the foreign minister expressed confidence that CFM would lead to a successful outcome. The foreign minister is attending the SCO CFM meeting at [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,84,396,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-india","category-latest","category-paksitan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}