Friday, 12 February 2016

Queen Maxima in Pakistan

Queen Maxima has ended her three day visit to Pakistan - she made the trip as a special representative of the United Nations Secretary General.


Queen Maxima of the Netherlands meets the President of Pakistan, Mamnoon Hussein, during her visit to the country

Her visit included meetings with the country's President, Prime Minister and Finance Minister as well as with the Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan as Queen Maxima continued her work to increase financial inclusiveness. This time round that included large scale debates about ensuring that groups including women are given full access to the financial resources that they need and a high profile speech about the power that inclusiveness can give to many parts of society.


Queen Maxima also spent time seeing how financial inclusiveness has changed lives, visiting social projects including one for young people and another that helps women gain greater access to managing their own money and accounts.


Queen Maxima sees how financial inclusiveness projects have helped young people in Pakistan

Queen Maxima returned to the Netherlands on February 11th following her three day visit.

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