Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj attended the SAARC Informal Council of Ministers Meeting on the sidelines of the 73rd United Nations General Assembly at the Hotel Westin Grand in New York on September 29, 2018. She delivered a speech addressing the threat to peace and stability posed by terrorism and the need for regional cooperation to counter it. She notably left the meeting early, before the speech of Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi.