BRUSSELS – Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar held multiple meetings with top officials of various countries to improve bilateral ties on sidelines of 4th EU Indo-Pacific Forum in Brussels.
The DPM held a meeting with Singapore’s Foreign Minister Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan and Bangladesh’s Ambassador Khandker Masudul Alam.
They underscored the importance of maintaining positive dialogue to promote mutual understanding, and shared views on current regional & international matters.
Earlier, Dar met Foreign Minister of Croatia, Gordon Radman. They discussed regional and global developments, advancing political and economic cooperation, enhancing Pak-Croatian engagement bilaterally and at multilateral forums.
The DPM also invited the Croatian foreign minister to visit Pakistan.
Earlier, Pakistan and Maldives have agreed to deepen bilateral cooperation, partnership in trade, connectivity and climate resilience.
The understanding to this effect was reached during a meeting between DPM Dar and Foreign Minister of Maldives Abdulla Khaleel Forum in Brussels.
Both sides underscored the importance of staying in regular contact, including through multilateral platforms, to further advance shared priorities.
A day earlier, Dar addressed the Indo-Pacific Ministerial Forum Roundtable. He said Pakistan’s security outlook is focused on maximizing regional convergence and minimizing divergences through dialogue, connectivity, and peaceful dispute resolution.
Highlighting global challenges, Ishaq Dar said the world is facing rising conflicts, foreign occupations, intensifying major power rivalries, a renewed global arms race, weaponization of cyber and outer space, and the emergence of new destructive technologies. He added that instability is further fueled by trade wars, food insecurity, inflation, widening economic inequalities, energy disruptions, and the mounting impacts of climate change.
