Foreign minister to visit to Kenya from Jan 29 to 30.

ISLAMABAD -- Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi will be visiting Kenya from 29-30 January 2020.

During the visit, he will hold meetings with the Kenyan leadership, including Cabinet Secretaries for Foreign Affairs and International Trade, African Community and Northern Corridor Development, Transport and Ports, as well as for Trade, Industry and Cooperatives.

The first-ever Pakistan-Africa Trade Development Conference, hosted jointly by the Ministries of Commerce and Foreign Affairs, Government of Pakistan, will be held in Nairobi on 30-31 January 2020. Besides Foreign Minister Qureshi, Advisor for Commerce, Textiles, Industry and Production, and Investments, Mr. Abdul Razzak Dawood will participate in the Conference. Both the Foreign Minister and the Adviser will address the Inaugural Session.

Apart from Kenyan Cabinet members, dignitaries from other African States and Pakistani envoys in Africa, the Conference will be attended by a strong contingent of business-people and entrepreneurs from Pakistan, who will interact with their African counterparts. In all, some 300 participants are expected to attend.

Africa's increasing integration and growth momentum together with Pakistan's potential as a connectivity hub have opened multiple avenues for win-win collaboration. The Conference...

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