China's foreign minister will travel to Myanmar this weekend for a regional meeting, a junta spokesman told AFP yesterday, in what will be Beijing's highest-profile visit since the military seized power. 

Wang Yi will visit Myanmar to attend a foreign ministers' meeting of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation mechanism,  the spokesman said.

The spokesman couldn't confirm a meeting between Wang and junta chief Min Aung Hlaing.

The foreign ministers of Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam will attend the July 2-5 meeting, the spokesman added.