24Apr
The Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), Didier Burkhalter, shall pay an official visit to China on 25 April 2013. He will hold high-level talks with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, on a range of key bilateral and international issues. The working visit of Federal Councillor Didier Burkhalter will be the fourth in a series of high-level annual consultations between Switzerland and China. These political and institutional consultations between the Swiss and Chinese foreign ministers began in 2010 in response to growing bilateral ties and areas of cooperation between the two countries.