China, ROK to Hold Diplomatic Strategic Dialogue

Senior officials from Foreign Ministries of China and the Republic of Korea (ROK) will hold the third high-level strategic dialogue next week in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu announced on Friday in Beijing.

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Guangya and ROK's First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Shin Kak-soo will attend the meeting scheduled on September 29, to discuss bilateral ties, and major international and regional issues of common concern, Jiang said.

The second high-level diplomatic strategic dialogue between the two nations was held in Seoul in April 2010 and the first one was in Beijing in December 2008.

(Xinhua News Agency September 24, 2010)