New Delhi, July 5 -- External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is likely to visit China for the first time after 2020 standoff between two countries at the Line of Actual Control (LAC). He will travel there in the third week of July to attend a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) foreign ministers' meeting and for bilateral meetings with key Chinese leaders, it was learnt.

Since India and China reached an understanding on ending the face-off last October, Jaishankar has met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the margins of multilateral events several times.

Jaishankar is expected to travel to Beijing for a bilateral meeting with Wang before going to Tianjin for the meeting of the SCO Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs on July 14 and...