ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif chaired a meeting on preparation of Heart of Asia conference at PM House here on Saturday.
Advisor on Foreign Affairs Mr Sartaj Aziz briefed the meeting about arrangements made for the important conference.
The three day conference will be held in Islamabad from 8th to 10th December
Advisor to PM Mr. Sartaj Aziz, National Security Advisor lieutenant General retd Nasir Janjua, DG ISI General Rizwan Akhtar, SAPM Tariq Fatemi and senior officials attended the meeting.
A foreign ministry spokesman said in Beijing on Friday that Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will attend the fifth ministerial conference of the Istanbul Process.
According to Indian media, Foreign minister Sushma Swaraj will travel to Islamabad on December 8 to attend the Heart of Asia security conference. She will be accompanied by foreign secretary S Jaishankar.
This will be the first significant engagement between the 2 countries since the meeting between PM Narendra Modi and his counterpart Nawaz Sharif in Ufa in July this year as she is expected to call on Sharif and also his adviser on foreign affairs Sartaj Aziz on the sidelines of the conference.
The Istanbul Process provides a new agenda for regional cooperation in the ‘Heart of Asia’ by placing Afghanistan at its center and engaging the ‘Heart of Asia’ countries in sincere and result?oriented cooperation for a peaceful and stable Afghanistan, as well as a secure and prosperous region as a whole.
