Dar in Brussels to attend nuclear energy summit

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Senator Muhammad Ishaq Dar, who is in Brussels to represent Pakistan in the first ever two-day Nuclear Energy Summit (NES), will articulate Pakistan’s standpoint pertaining to the use of nuclear capability for the well-being of humanity and splendid safety record of its nuclear facilities.

Highly-placed diplomatic sources told The News on Wednesday, a day before the summit starts in the Belgian capital that Ishaq Dar would have meetings with world leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron, US climate envoy John Podesta, Chinese President Xi’s special representative, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, and International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi on the brinks of the summit, which will conclude on Friday.

It is unlikely that Dar will meet with his Indian counterpart on the sidelines of the summit being attended by 30 important countries.