Flurry of meetings planned for FM

Foreign Minister Wang Yi will travel to Laos on Sunday for a series of annual regional meetings, an occasion observers said to enhance maritime cooperation and maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea.

The visit follows Beijing's rejection last week of the ruling in the arbitration case unilaterally brought by the Philippines that challenges China's sovereignty in the South China Sea.

Wang will take part in the ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers Meeting, the ASEAN-China, Japan and South Korea Foreign Ministers Meeting, the East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers Meeting and the ASEAN Regional Forum Foreign Ministers Meeting, the ministry announced on its website on Thursday.