Islamabad: Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch apprised that Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari would visit New York in the context of the conference on ‘Women in Islam: Understanding the rights and Identity of Women in the Islamic World’, being held on March 8.
She informed at a weekly press briefing that it is an initiative of FM Bilawal, she said, the conference is being convened by Pakistan in its capacity as the chair of the OIC Council of Ministers at the UN Headquarters on the sidelines of the 67th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).
She said the foreign minister would chair the high-level and policy dialogue segments, with ministerial-level participation from OIC member states and non-OIC states, in addition to the leadership of the United Nations, UN Women, and other international organizations.
On March 10, the foreign minister will headline an event on Islamophobia in New York. It may be recalled that last year, at the initiative of Pakistan, the United Nations General Assembly declared March 15 as the Day to Combat Islamophobia.
