Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a five-year-old, six-member regional organization, will gather in Shanghai next Monday for an annual meeting.

"The foreign ministers will attend the regular meeting of the SCO Foreign Ministers' Council, which will pave the way for the SCO summit scheduled for mid June in Shanghai," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said on Tuesday.

"The foreign ministers will discuss how to deepen the SCO cooperation in all fields and confer on international and regional issues of common concern," the spokesman said.

Dubbed a new model of regional cooperation, the SCO is made up of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Source: Xinhua