BEIJING, May 31 Kyodo Chinese Pre...

BEIJING, May 31 Kyodo

Chinese President Jiang Zemin will attend a regional colloquy on confidence building Tuesday in Kazakstan along with Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday.

The parley on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia to be held in the Kazak capital of Almaty will also be attended by way of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Jiang will then travel to St Petersburg where forward June 7 he will attend a Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, spokesman Kong Quan told reporters.

Jiang will proper in the Russian city with Putin along with leaders of the organization's other members -- Uzbekistan, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Jiang, appropriate to fly out of Beijing onward Monday, will also travel to Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Iceland during his two-week overseas tour.

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