Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying announces:

The Meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will be held in Beijing on April 24. At the invitation of State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj of India, Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov of Kazakhstan, Foreign Minister Erlan Abdyldayev of Kyrgyzstan, Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif of Pakistan, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov of Russia, Foreign Minister Sirodjidin Aslov of Tajikistan, Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov of Uzbekistan, Secretary-General of the SCO Rashid Alimov and Director of the Executive Committee of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure Yevgeniy Sysoyev will attend the meeting. All parties will exchange views on SCO cooperation in various areas and major international and regional issues. Foreign ministers of Russia, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan will visit China while attending the meeting.