South Korea, China and Japan will hold a foreign ministers meeting this weekend for the first time in about three years, in a bid to restore stagnant trilateral cooperation, Seoul's foreign ministry said Tuesday, Yonhap News Agency reported.
The meeting scheduled for Saturday in Seoul will bring together South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and his Chinese and Japanese counterparts Wang Yi and Fumio Kishida, the ministry said.
"The meeting will pave the way for restoring three-way cooperation," Seoul's foreign ministry said in a statement.
The three top diplomats are expected to assess the current status of trilateral cooperation and discuss the future direction for further development, Seoul's foreign ministry added.
The foreign ministers are expected to discuss a trilateral summit that has been also not held since May 2012 amid long-standing historical grievances, according to government officials.
The foreign ministers' meeting will "undoubtedly" give the three nations the chance to "inject momentum" into trilateral cooperation and revitalizing various consultative mechanisms and projects, South Korea's deputy foreign minister Lee Kyung-soo said on March 11.