ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has left for New York City to attend an emergency UN General Assembly (UNGA) session on the ongoing violence in the Gaza Strip.
As per sources who told a leading international daily, it reads Pakistani Foreign Minister Qureshi will travel to the US via Ankara and on way to New York, he will be accompanied by his counterparts from Turkey, Sudan and Palestine. He left Islamabad on Monday night. The UNGA session will take place on Thursday.
Besides attending the session, Qureshi, will hold important meetings with various dignitaries at the UN, the sources said.
The ongoing conflict, the worst violence between Israel and Palestinian militants in the besieged enclave since 2014, has so far killed 204 Palestinians, including 59 children, and 10 Israelis.
Two day earlier, Qureshi apprised Secretary Blinken of Pakistani people's deep concern and anguish on the worsening humanitarian situation in the Israeli and Palestinian territories and underscored the importance of US role in ensuring necessary steps to help address the dire situation, restore peace, and facilitate a just solution. He highlighted the salience of transformed Pakistan (Naya Pakistan), with its shifting focus on geo-economics.
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