APP, 15th Feb 2020: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will leave New York for Islamabad over the weekend on his first trip to Pakistan as the world body’s chief during which he will speak at an International Conference on 40 Years of Hosting Afghan Refugees in Pakistan, and meet Prime Minister Imran Khan and other high-level government officials, his Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Friday. The two-day conference in Islamabad on February 17 would be a recognition of Pakistan’s “tremendous generosity” in hosting millions of refugees from Afghanistan over four decades, the spokesman told the regular noon briefing at UN Headquarters in New York. The conference, which will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Khan, is being organized by the Government of Pakistan and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Dujarric said the UN chief, who will arrive in Islamabad on Sunday, besides meeting PM Khan, will have talks with Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Hussain Qureshi and later speak at an event on sustainable development and climate change. On Monday, after speaking at the International Conference, along with High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, Guterres will participate in a high-level panel discussion and other events at that conference, the spokesman said. … Continue reading UN chief is set to arrive in Islamabad on Sunday