Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi presided over the Meeting of the Council of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Member States in north China's Tianjin Municipality on Tuesday.
Many foreign ministers and heads of standing bodies of SCO attended the meeting, following their earlier meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing that same day.
Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, reported on the progress made in various aspects of work since China assumed the rotating presidency, as well as the preparations for the SCO Summit in Tianjin.
China holds the rotating presidency of the SCO for 2024 to 2025 and is going to hold SCO Tianjin Summit from Aug. 31 to Sept. 1.
This meeting of the Council of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs aims at making political preparations for the summit. The parties focused on cooperation in various fields of the SCO and major international and regional issues, and signed a series of resolutions and documents.
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