President Zardari leaves for Chicago to attend NATO summit

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has left for Chicago to attend the 25th NATO Summit being held on May 20-21.

President Zardari is visiting Chicago at the invitation of NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said Foreign Office Spokesman in a statement.

He said the decision to attend the summit was made after both the Defence Committee of Cabinet and Federal Cabinet had endorsed the invitation.

The spokesman said in Chicago, the president would address the expanded ISAF meeting of NATO. He will also meet various heads of state and governments on the margins of the NATO Summit.