Canada To Host The World's Female Foreign Ministers
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published April 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Toronto, Canada, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Apr, 2018 ) :Canada will host the world's small but growing band of female foreign ministers for talks ahead of this year's UN General Assembly, Canada's Chrystia Freeland announced Sunday.
Freeland opened a meeting in Toronto of G7 foreign ministers with a session, co-hosted by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini, dedicated to her women counterparts. Alongside the male chief diplomats from most of the G7 major industrialized powers, were female ministers from Ghana, Ecuador, Panama, Jamaica, Guatemala and Colombia.
Freeland said she and Mogherini had decided to host talks on September 21 and 22 ahead of UNGA just for these "inspiring" female foreign ministers.
"We are sure that such an initiative will give rise to some very constructive discussions," she said.
Mogherini explicitly linked the planned meeting to the subsequent UN event and added: "We believe that is going to be a very important way to open the doorway for understanding." Freeland also noted that Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Kono had had dinner with the female envoys the night before.
"All of us women foreign ministers said we are often in meetings where we are the only woman, and so Taro got a little bit what it was like," she joked, thanking him.
Related Topics
Recent Stories
ISSI, FES hold int'l moot 'Pakistan in the Emerging Geopolitical Landscape'
Anonymous allegations against PR chairman rejected
Dallas hosts Kashmiri diaspora: A convergence for environmental, peace advocacy
PML-N’s Central General Council to meet on May 11
Gillani calls for further promoting parliamentary relations between Pakistan, US
Massive financial, administrative scam unearthed at SCCI
Tennis: ATP/WTA Madrid Open results
FCCI welcomes Iranian president's visit
Chief Commissioner briefs Federal Minister Engr Amir Muqam about Raha Program
Millat Express stop at Bandhi extended
Govt. making all-out efforts to enhance energy mix to provide affordable electri ..
ATC adjourns hearing of May-9 violence case till May 11
More Stories From World
-
UAE announces $544 million for repairs after record rains
19 minutes ago -
Hamas releases video of Israeli-American hostage held in Gaza
15 minutes ago -
Iran president visits Sri Lanka, inaugurates power, irrigation project
51 minutes ago -
Italy fines Amazon over 'recurring' purchase option
1 hour ago -
Top France court confirms ex-PM's conviction in fake jobs scandal
1 hour ago -
UBS chairman decries tighter capital rules
1 hour ago
-
Israel says forces carrying out 'offensive action' in south Lebanon
1 hour ago -
Spain PM under pressure as wife faces graft probe
2 hours ago -
U.S. Secretary of State Blinken arrives in Shanghai
2 hours ago -
N. Macedonia starts elections that could decide stalled EU talks
2 hours ago -
Haaland ruled out of Man City's crucial trip to Brighton
2 hours ago -
Four dead as floods wreak havoc in Kenyan capital
2 hours ago