Qureshi arrives in Jeddah to attend 14th OIC Council of FMs' meeting.

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi Tuesday arrived in Saudi

Arabia's port city of Jeddah to attend the Council of Foreign Minister's Meeting

of 14th Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

The Foreign Minister was received at the Royal Terminal of King Abdul Aziz International Airport by senior official of Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Jamal Nasir, Pakistan's ambassador Raja Ali Ijaz and Counsel General

Jeddah Gen (retd) Sheharyar Akbar Khan.

The Foreign Minister will attend the session on May 29th (Wednesday)

which will finalize the agenda for the OIC summit-level meeting to be held

in Makkah on May 31st.

Earlier talking to reporters in Islamabad prior to his departure for Saudi

Arabia, Foreign Minister Qureshi said "the OIC session was very important

to discuss the Middle East conflict and diffuse the situation through the

proposed Peace Plan".

He confirmed that Prime Minister Imran Khan would attend the summit,

titled 'Makkah Summit: Together for the Future", hosted by Saudi King

Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on May 31st, aimed at developing a unified

stance of Muslim leaders on rising tension in the Gulf.

At the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers' meeting...

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