South Korea will participate in a meeting on on-proliferation and disarmament, which will be held in Beijing later in the week, the foreign ministry said Monday.

According to the ministry, a South Korean delegation will be sent to the inaugural non-proliferation meeting hosted by the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), a key security dialogue channel for Asia.

During the meeting, anti-proliferation experts and government officials are expected to share updated information on their implementation of UN Resolution 1540 adopted in 2004, which prevents transfer of weapons of mass destruction into terrorists, the ministry said.

The meeting will also deal with ways to regulate suspicious trade activities, the ministry added.

The ARF was founded in July 1993 by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which groups Singapore, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam.

Source: Xinhua