Sushma Swaraj to visit China on April 21

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ The External Affairs Minister is scheduled to take part in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Foreign Ministers meeting on April 24. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will visit China later this week to participate in the Foreign Ministers’ meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) during which she will also hold talks with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.

Ms. Swaraj, who will be arriving in China on April 21, is expected to meet Mr. Wang on April 22. She is scheduled to take part in the SCO Foreign Ministers meeting on April 24, official sources in Beijing said.

This will be their first meeting after Mr. Wang has been elevated last month to be the State Councillor, which makes him the top diplomat in the Chinese hierarchy. He will hold the dual posts of the State Councillor and Foreign Minister.After her China visit, she will travel to Mongolia.

Ms. Swaraj and Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman are visiting China virtually around the same time. Ms. Sitharaman is due to take part in the SCO Defence Ministers meeting on April 24. The SCO meetings are a prelude to the June summit of the eight-member grouping in which India and Pakistan have become new members.