Sushma will be arriving in China on April 21 and she is scheduled to take part in the SCO Foreign Ministers meeting on April 24

SCO Foreign and Defence Ministers meetings are scheduled on the same day on April 24 and almost around the same time, according to officials.

Addressing the 18th mid-term ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), Swaraj also pushed for reforms of the United Nations Security Council.

Earlier this month, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, in a suo motu statement in the Rajya Sabha, had said that all the 39 Indians abducted by the terror outfit in Iraq's Mosul three years ago are dead and their bodies have been recovered.

Earlier this month, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, in a suo motu statement in the Rajya Sabha, had said that all the 39 Indians abducted by the terror outfit in Iraq's Mosul three years ago are dead and their bodies have been recovered.

Much to the embarrassment of the grand-old-party, close to 34,000 people, voted and 76 percent of them voted "No".

Former External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Wednesday said that it was difficult to fathom how the government could have taken so long to find out the truth about missing Indians.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today informed the parliament that the Indians abducted in Iraq in 2014 were killed by Islamic State terrorists and buried in a mass grave.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj earlier in the day told Parliament that all the 39 Indians abducted in Mosul are dead and their bodies have been recovered.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said that all 39 Indians in ISIS captivity were dead and their bodies had been recovered.

Randeep Surjewala said the Modi government has "crossed all limits of insensitivity" as it preferred to make the announcement on television rather than calling up every families and informing them individually.

Speaking on the floor of the Rajya Sabha, Sushma Swaraj said that the mortal remains will be brought back to India by MoS for External Affairs VK Singh.

PM Narendra Modi noted that the government remains fully committed towards ensuring the safety of "our sisters and brothers overseas".

She also accused the Congress of indulging in ‘cheap politics’ by disrupting proceedings in the Lok Sabha when she was to make a statement on the deaths of 39 Indians in Iraq.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today informed that all the 39 Indians abducted by the ISIS terror outfit in Mosul in Iraq three years ago are dead and their bodies have been recovered.

The mortal remains, which were exhumed from a mass grave in Badosh, will be brought back to India on a special plane and handed over to their relatives, Swaraj informed the Rajya Sabha.

The mortal remains, which were exhumed from a mass grave in Badosh, will be brought back to India on a special plane and handed over to their relatives, EAM told Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.

"Deeply saddened and shocked with the very sad news from #Mosul. Words are not enough to console the 39 grieving families. Our thoughts and prayers with them", she said in a tweet.

Addressing the Rajya Sabha, the External Affairs Minister said, "Yesterday we got information that DNA samples of 38 people have matched and DNA of the 39th person has matched 70 per cent."

Swaraj’s visit also comes in the backdrop of efforts being made by India and China to move forward after last year’s military stand-off in Doklam, which still remains an area of monitoring and strategic significance for New Delhi amidst China buildin