Saturday, 9 August 2008

South Korea: Vice foreign minister to visit Cambodia, Pakistan

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said Thursday (Aug. 7) that Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kwon Jong-rak will visit Cambodia and Pakistan next week to seek ways of promoting ties with those countries.

Kwon will preside over a meeting of the heads of Korean diplomatic missions in a dozen Southeast Asian countries on Monday in Phnom Penh, the first leg of his eight-day tour starting this weekend, the ministry said.

He also plans to attend the inaugural joint committee meeting between Korea and Cambodia on Tuesday, in which the two sides will review their relations on the occasion of the 11th year of their diplomatic ties.

Kwon will then head to Pakistan for the seventh policy consultation meeting between the two nations, in which he will discuss with his counterpart Salman Bashir ways of cementing bilateral cooperation in diplomacy, economics, trade, and other fields, as well as exchange views on regional security conditions, according to the ministry.

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