State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will chair the fourth China-Afghanistan-Pakistan trilateral foreign ministers' meeting on Thursday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin announced on Wednesday.

Against the background of the unilateral withdrawal of troops by the United States and NATO from Afghanistan, the three foreign ministers will have in-depth exchanges of views on the Afghan peace and reconciliation process, practical cooperation, and counterterrorism and security cooperation, the spokesman told reporters at a regular news briefing in Beijing.

"We believe that a positive consensus will be reached during the dialogue thus injecting new impetus to facilitating regional peace, stability and development," the spokesman said.