Premier Wen Jiabao will visit Finland, the United Kingdom, Germany and Tajikistan from September 9 to 16 at the invitation of Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Tajikistan Prime Minister Akil Akilov, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Qin Gang announced in Beijing Thursday.

 

According to Qin, Wen will also attend the ninth China-EU Summit and the sixth Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) to be held in Helsinki, capital of Finland, and the Fifth Meeting of Prime Ministers of the Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to be held in Tajikistan's capital of Dushanbe.

 

(Xinhua News Agency September 1, 2006)