BEIJING - Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi will attend the second round of strategic dialogue between China and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in early May, a spokesman said Tuesday.

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Yang is scheduled to attend the dialogue to be held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and pay official visits to Egypt, Serbia, Switzerland and Russia from May 1 to 7, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei at a regular news briefing.

China and the GCC inaugurated their first round of strategic dialogue in June 2010 in Beijing.