Key points
- Foreign ministers of all SCO member states will participate in meeting
- Belarusian FM will attend meeting for the first time as a member of SCO
- Chinese, Russian foreign ministers meet in Beijing ahead of SCO meeting
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar will lead a delegation to the three-day meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Council of Foreign Ministers being held in Tianjin, China, on Monday.
Ishaq Dar is attending the event at the invitation of the Foreign Minister of China, Wang Yi.
Foreign ministers of all SCO member states, including Pakistan, China, Belarus, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, will participate in the meeting, according to Radio Pakistan.
Belarus attends for first time
The foreign minister of Belarus will attend the meeting for the first time as a member of the SCO.
The council of foreign ministers is the third-highest forum in the SCO format.
Ishaq Dar will also hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts on the sidelines of the meeting.
Lavrov meets Wang
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Sunday in Beijing.
Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, welcomed Lavrov to China to attend the meeting of the council of the ministers of foreign affairs of the SCO member states.
China is willing to work with Russia and other member states to prepare for the Tianjin Summit, and promote the development of the SCO to a new level, Wang said.
