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    Sushma Swaraj to visit China this week for SCO meeting

    Sushma Swaraj to visit China this week for SCO meeting

    By Rajashree Seal
    (PTI desk)
    Apr 17, 2018
    01:40 pm

    What's the story

    External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will visit China later this week to participate in the Foreign Ministers meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation during which she will also hold talks with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.

    Swaraj will be arriving in China on April 21 and expected to meet Wang on April 22.

    She will attend the SCO Foreign Ministers meeting on April 24.

    Visit

    After China, Sushma will be traveling to Mongolia

    This will be their first meeting after 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.

    Swaraj and Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman are visiting China virtually around the same time.

    Defense Ministers

    Nirmala Sitharaman will take part in SCO Defense Ministers meet

    Sitharaman is due to take part in the SCO Defense 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.

    PM Narendra Modi is expected to take part in the SCO summit to be held in the Chinese city of Qingdao in June.

    Meetings

    Foreign, Defense Ministers of Pakistan also expected to attend

    Foreign and Defense Ministers of Pakistan are also expected to attend the April 24 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meetings.

    The SCO is comprised of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India, and Pakistan.

    Visits by Swaraj and Sitharaman are taking place as India and China have stepped up high-level exchanges to defuse tensions following last year's Dokalam standoff.

    Relations

    NSA held in-depth talks on improving relations with China

    On April 13, National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval met Yang Jiechi, Director of China's Foreign Affairs Commission and member of the ruling Communist Party of China, in Shanghai during which the two sides held in-depth talks on improving the relations.

    Both sides also held the 11th Joint Economic Group meeting and the fifth Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED).

    Information

    India, China also held working mechanism meeting on border affairs

    India and China also held working mechanism meeting on border affairs and cross-border rivers. Commenting on the meetings, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told the media yesterday that bilateral ties have seen sound momentum and all-around cooperation this year.

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