China’s foreign ministry announced that top diplomat Wang Yi will chair a UN Security Council meeting in New York on May 26 before traveling to Ottawa.
China’s foreign ministry said on Friday that Wang would chair a high-level meeting of the UN Security Council in New York on May 26, followed by a visit to Canada from May 28 to 30.
The New York leg of Wang’s trip follows less than two weeks after the Beijing summit between Xi and US President Donald Trump. There, the two leaders projected a warm rapport and discussed a potential state visit by Xi to Washington in September.
Wang confirmed last week that Xi would visit the US in the autumn, following Trump’s official invitation to meet on September 24. It would mark the first state visit by a Chinese leader to the United States since September 2015.
