The third round of China-Afghanistan-Pakistan trilateral foreign ministers’ dialogue will be held in Islamabad on Saturday. 

Pakistan’s Foreign Office said in a statement that Afghanistan’s Acting Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani, State Councilor and Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi and Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi will lead their respective delegations.

The agenda of the dialogue focuses on political relations and the [Afghan] peace process, security cooperation and counter-terrorism, and development cooperation and connectivity, the statement said. 

China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Dialogue was established in 2017 as a means of trilateral cooperation on issues of mutual interest and with a particular focus on cooperation in economic development and peace and security.

The first meeting of the tripartite dialogue was held in Beijing in 2017 while the second meeting was held in Kabul in December 2018. 

The dialogue provides an opportunity to illustrate the joint efforts made by Afghanistan, China and Pakistan on political cooperation and facilitating Afghan peace and reconciliation process since the last round.