"During the visit, the Home Minister is likely to have bilateral meetings with the ministers of some of the SCO member states," an official statement said on Wednesday.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is likely to meet his Chinese counterpart, among others, at a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on 'Disaster prevention and relief' in Kyrgyz Republic to be held on August 24 and 25.
"During the visit, the Home Minister is likely to have bilateral meetings with the ministers of some of the SCO member states," an official statement said on Wednesday.
Singh's expected meeting with his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of the SCO will be significant amid the over two-month-long standoff between India and China in Dokalam.
Singh had on Monday said that a solution to the ongoing stand-off would be found soon and hoped that Beijing would make a positive move in this regard.
China, however, said the only way to end the standoff in Dokalam was for India to unconditionally withdraw its troops from the area.
When asked whether the Home Minister will meet his Chinese counterpart, a Home Ministry spokesperson said as of now no meeting has been fixed.
Founded in 2001, the SCO member countries include China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India, and Pakistan, and the bloc is headquartered in Beijing.
India and Pakistan had joined the SCO, the China-dominated security grouping, in June, in Kazakhstan capital Astana. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had attended the summit.
The SCO meeting will deal with the prevention and elimination of emergency situations.
"The participation of India as SCO member will open the additional opportunities for giving new impetus to the development of international cooperation in the field of protecting the population and territories from emergency situations within the framework of the SCO and will bring it qualitatively new positions in regional and global formats," a Home Ministry statement said.
The meeting will consider and approve the draft action plan for 2018-2019 for the implementation of the agreement between the governments of the SCO member states on cooperation in providing assistance in the elimination of emergency situations, it said.
The Indian delegation includes senior officers from the Ministry of Home Affairs, the National Disaster Management Authority and the Ministry of External Affairs.
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