WASHINGTON - The US-China Human Rights Dialogue will take place on May 13-14 in Washington, announced US State Department on Thursday.

The US delegation will be led by Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner. The Chinese delegation will be headed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General for International Organizations Chen Xu.

The human rights dialogue, which was scheduled by the end of February, had been delayed due to tensions between Washington and Beijing over US arms sale to Taiwan and US President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama early this year.