Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has arrived in China to take part in the sitting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The government plane landed at Beijing airport, TASS reported.
The head of the Russian diplomacy left Beijing from the DPRK, where he was on a three-day working visit to Wonsan. Prior to that, the Minister took part in Asian events in Kuala Lumpur on July 10-11.
According to the official representative of the Russian Diplomatic Department Maria Zakharova, the SCO session will take place in Tyeanzin on July 14-15. The ministerial meeting will be a key step in preparing the organization's summit, which will take place in the same city in the Chinese city from August 30 to September 1. According to the diplomat, Lavrov also envisages a number of bilateral meetings within the framework of the event.
