External affairs minister S Jaishankar and his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi can be within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over the weekend. However,each nations mentioned on Saturday that no assembly was deliberate between the 2 leaders.
Hours after Qureshi started his three-day go to to the UAE, MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi took to Twitter and introduced that Jaishankar would go to Abu Dhabi on April 18 on the invitation of his UAE counterpart Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
Qureshi tweeted, “Good to be in the #UAE and to have met the Pakistan Business Council Dubai for a constructive session on #EconomicDiplomacy. The Pakistani community in UAE continue to play a positive role across all echelons of business & work with great contributions to the development” of Pakistan-UAE ties.
The announcement triggered hypothesis a couple of assembly between Jaishankar and Qureshi, particularly within the wake of the acknowledgment by a senior Emirati diplomat of the UAE’s function in facilitating secret talks between India and Pakistan.
However, each India and Pakistan have refuted such speculations and mentioned each the ministers may have separate bilateral visits.
This is the second time they are going to be in the identical nation for a go to in lower than three weeks – each had been in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe for the Heart of Asia assembly on March 30.
