PM Shehbaz to attend inauguration ceremony of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara tomorrow

ISLAMABAD, June 02 (SABAH): Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif will attend the inauguration ceremony of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara tomorrow (Saturday).

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is paying the visit at the invitation of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who was re-elected to the office consecutively for the third term last week.

Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch in a statement said the Prime Minister will convey warm felicitations on behalf of the government and people of Pakistan to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

FO spokesperson said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Shairf’s visit will be a reaffirmation of the deep-rooted fraternal ties between Pakistan and Türkiye. The Prime Minister will convey warm felicitations on behalf of the Government and people of Pakistan to President Erdogan on his re-election as President of Türkiye on 28 May 2023. The Prime Minister will also extend an invitation to President Erdogan to attend the 7th Meeting of the High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council (HLSCC) in Islamabad, with a view to providing further momentum to the diverse and multifaceted strategic partnership between Pakistan and Türkiye.

She said that Pakistan-Türkiye relationship is deeply embedded in commonalities of faith, culture and history, and strengthened by mutual trust and convergence of views on regional and global matters. Frequent leadership level exchanges are a defining feature of the eternal bonds of friendship between the two countries.