Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi will attend the relevant meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN) from July 31 to August 2 in Manila at the invitation of the Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Alberto Romulo.

According to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yang will participate in the foreign ministers' meetings in the framework of the ASEAN plus China, Japan and South Korea, the East Asia Summit (EAS), ASEAN Post Ministerial Conferences (PMC) and the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF).

(Xinhua News Agency July 24, 2007)