Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), will visit Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and Russia from April 12 to 21, reported Xinhua News Agency on Thursday.

Zhang will visit the four countries at the invitations of Latvian Parliament Speaker Inara Murniece; Lithuanian Parliament Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis; Chairman of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of Belarus Mikhail Myasnikovich and Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly Vladimir Andreichenko; Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko and Chairman of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin.

Zhang will attend the third meeting of the cooperation committee between the NPC and the Russian parliament in Russia.