ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Industries and Production Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtyar has reached Dubai to lead the Pakistani delegation at the Sixth Ministerial-Level Abu Dhabi Dialogue.
On behalf of the Government of Pakistan, Minister Khusro Bakhtyar will accept the chairmanship handed over to Pakistan during a ceremony on October 27. For the first time, Pakistan has been awarded the chairmanship of Abu Dhabi Dialogue for the next two years 2022-2023 due to the efforts of Ministry of Overseas Pakistani and Human Resource Development.
The minister will lead the Pakistani delegation at the sidelines meetings with ministers of the prominent state members followed by the tour to Dubai Expo 2020. During the visit, the minister will also meet with traders and investors based in UAE to expand the joint ventures in the industrial sector in Pakistan.
It is worth mentioning that as a state-led Regional Consultative Process (RCP), the Abu Dhabi Dialogue aims to enable safe, orderly and regular labour migration in some of the world’s largest temporary labour migration corridors.
Through multi-lateral dialogue and cooperation on the joint development of labour mobility-related programming, implementation, and reporting, the ADD helps to ensure that member states develop partnerships for adopting best practices, and are in a position to learn from one another’s experience.
The cvil society has been invited to contribute to the dialogue and in recent years to partner in the some programme areas. The ADD was established in 2008 as a forum for dialogue and cooperation between Asian countries of labor origin and destination.
The ADD consists of the twelve Member States of the Colombo Process (CP) and six Gulf countries of destination as well as Malaysia. Pakistan started participating in the consultations since 2016.
