President to leave for Europe, Cuba, America

ISLAMABAD—President Gen Pervez Musharraf will leave on his (Monday) for his long tours to Europe, Cuba and America from today (Monday).
The President would be outside the country till 28 September and would address the Non-Aligned Countries Movement (NAM) Conference and General Assembly session of United Nation.
President Gen Pervez Musharraf would arrive in Brussels on Sept 12 to hold talks on a wide range of issues with EU officials and also address a conference on Kashmir.
Musharraf is scheduled to meet EU Foreign Policy Chief, Javier Solana, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt.
President Musharraf will speak at the "Global discourse on Kashmir" organised by the All Party Group for Kashmir in the European Parliament and the Kashmir Centre Brussels From Brussels, Musharraf will proceed to Havana, Capital of Cuba on Sept 16 to attend the summit conference of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) where he is expected to hold talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the summit.
Both leaders will exchange views to move forward peace process between Pakistan and India during the meeting.
President Musharraf would be arriving in New York on September 17 to attend the UN General Assembly session.
President Gen Pervez Musharraf is expected to meet with George W. Bush, United State President on Sept 22 in White House.
During the meeting, both leaders would exchanges views relating to War against terrorism, Defence cooperation, Pak-America strategic relation, Pak-India peace process especially Kashmir issue, Democracy in Pakistan, middle east crises and Iran nuclear issue.
President Musharraf would also address the Pakistani community and Students of George Town University on the same evening and would arrive back in New York to participate in book launching ceremony (In the line of Fire) on Sept 25. Kofi Anan UN Secretary General would be chief guest in the book launching ceremony.
He would again leave for Washington on September 24 and would attend a dinner hosted by President Bush in the honour of President Musharraf at the White House which would also be attended by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.—Agencies