Chinese FM Leaves on Asia TourForeign Minister Tang Jiaxuan left Friday for a visit to India, Pakistan, and Singapore. Tang is paying the visit at the invitation of Jaswant Singh, Abdus Sattar, and Shunmugam Jayakumar, foreign ministers of the three countries respectively.During the visit, Tang will also attend the first Foreign Ministers' Meeting of ASEAN-China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK)(10+3), the seventh Foreign Ministers' Meeting of ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), the thirty-third Foreign Ministers' Meeting of Post Ministerial Conferences (PMC), and ASEAN-China Dialogue Meeting (10+1) in Thailand from July 26 to 29, at the invitation of Foreign Minister Surin Pitsuwan of Thailand, current chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). |
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