Sushma Swaraj to visit China and Mongolia

New Delhi, April 13: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will visit China, where she will attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Ministerial Meeting, and then Mongolia later this month, a senior official said on Thursday.

"First she will go to China for SCO Ministerial Meeting and from there she will be travelling to Mongolia for Foreign Minister-level talks," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said in his weekly media briefing here.

Kumar said that Sushma Swaraj will be in China on April 22-23 and then in Mongolia on April 24-25 April.

The SCO is a Eurasian intergovernmental organisation, the creation of which was announced in 2001 in Shanghai by Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. It was preceded by the Shanghai Five mechanism.