Antony Blinken meets Bilawal in US to reset ties

NEW YORK: US secretary of state Antony Blinken on Wednesday met Pakistan’s foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari at the UN headquarters in New York and their talks focussed on regional security as well as strengthening bilateral economic and commercial ties.
Bilawal is on a maiden visit to the US at the invitation of Blinken to attend the ministerial meeting on the “Global Food Security Call to Action” to be held at the UN on Wednesday. In his remarks before his meeting with Bilawal, the first face-to-face interaction between the two ministers, Blinken said Washington is “very pleased” to be working with the foreign minister and with a new government in Pakistan.“We want to focus onour economic and commercial ties and of course, focus on regional security,” Blinken said.