ISLAMABAD: China’s Consular and Foreign Minister Wang Yi is likely to visitPakistan to attend trilateral dialogue between China, Pakistan andAfghanistan next month.
According to sources, Consular Wang Yi is likely to arrive in Pakistan onSeptember 6 and it is also likely that the Chinese dignitary would attendPakistan’s defence day celebrations.
It merits a mention that Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to visitNew Delhi in October which adds further impetus to the Chinese ForeignMinister’s visit prior to Xi’s visit to India.
Sources revealed that Consular Wang is likely to have meetings with PrimeMinister (PM) Imran Khan, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and otherhigh ranking officials whereas the two countries would discuss expansion ofthe scope of China, Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in addition to theAfghanistan endgame and regional security situation with a specificreference to situation in Indian occupied Kashmir (IoK).
China played a key role in tabling a resolution on India’s annexation ofKashmir at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) which is being dubbedas diplomatic humiliation for India. Although Russia, US and UK alsosupported the Kashmir issue, China played a key role in tabling theresolution.
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Sources further added that a high-level military delegation from China isalso arriving Pakistan on August 26 as the two strategic partners wouldevaluate the security situation in detail.
An official, however, told *Pakistan Today*that the Chinese consular’s isyet to be confirmed as the confirmation of Afghan delegation is yet to bereceived.
“Due to Afghan election, uncertainty persists about the trilateral dialoguedue to Presidential election in Afghan. However, things would be clear inthe next few days,” the diplomatic official said.
